Counting flags in triangle-free digraphs
arXiv:0908.2791 · doi:10.1007/s00493-015-2662-5
Abstract
Motivated by the Caccetta-Haggkvist Conjecture, we prove that every digraph on n vertices with minimum outdegree 0.3465n contains an oriented triangle. This improves the bound of 0.3532n of Hamburger, Haxell and Kostochka. The main new tool we use in our proof is the theory of flag algebras developed recently by Razborov.
19 pages, 7 figures; this is the final version to appear in Combinatorica