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Erdős Problem 742

Murty-Simon Conjecture*

Mathematical statement

Murty-Simon Conjecture*

Let GG be a graph on nn vertices with diameter 22 such that deleting any edge increases the diameter. Is it true that GG has at most n2/4\lfloor n^2 / 4 \rfloor edges? Equality is conjectured to hold for the complete balanced bipartite graph Kn/2,n/2K_{\lceil n/2 \rceil, \lfloor n/2 \rfloor}.

The conjecture is resolved up to a finite check: Fan [Fa87] verified it for n24n \leq 24 and n=26n = 26, and Füredi [Fü92] proved it for all sufficiently large nn.

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erdos_742

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theorem erdos_742 :    answer(sorry)   (V : Type*) [Fintype V] [DecidableEq V]    (G : SimpleGraph V) [DecidableRel G.Adj], IsDiameter2Critical G     G.edgeFinset.card  (Fintype.card V) ^ 2 / 4 := by  sorry
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v4.27.0
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Present; no proof artifact
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