A Lower Bound for the Number of Edges in a Graph Containing No Two Cycles of the Same Length

Chunhui Lai

Published 2002-06-06, updated 2002-06-07Version 2

In 1975, P. Erd\"{o}s proposed the problem of determining the maximum number $f(n)$ of edges in a graph of $n$ vertices in which any two cycles are of different lengths. In this paper, it is proved that $$f(n)\geq n+32t-1$$ for $t=27720r+169 (r\geq 1)$ and $n\geq{6911/16}t^{2}+{514441/8}t-{3309665/16}$. Consequently, $\liminf\sb {n \to \infty} {f(n)-n \over \sqrt n} \geq \sqrt {2 + {2562 \over 6911}}.$