Exact stability for Turán’s Theorem

Abstract

Turán's Theorem says that an extremal Kr+1-free graph is r-partite. The Stability Theorem of Erdős and Simonovits shows that if a Kr+1-free graph with n vertices has close to the maximal tr(n) edges, then it is close to being r-partite. In this paper we determine exactly the Kr+1-free graphs with at least m edges that are farthest from being r-partite, for any m≥tr(n)−δrn2. This extends work by Erdős, Győri and Simonovits, and proves a conjecture of Balogh, Clemen, Lavrov, Lidický and Pfender.