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Bounding Monochromatic Triangles Using Squares

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Abstract

Summary: Goodman gave the lower bound on the number of monochromatic triangles of the complete graph on n vertices when the edges are colored with two colors. We reprove his result by giving an algebraic reformulation and utilizing that squares of real expressions are nonnegative.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)383-386
Number of pages4
JournalMathematics Magazine
Volume94
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
©, Mathematical Association of America.

Funding

The author thanks the referee and the editor for suggestions improving the exposition and Theodore Ehrenborg for reading an earlier draft. This work was also partially supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (#429370 to Richard Ehrenborg).

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Simons Foundation429370

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Mathematics

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