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Combinatorics Difficulty 7.6 National olympiad, round 2 Prove it Turkey

The number of unordered edge pairs without common vertex in a graph GG with 3030 vertices and 105105 edges is equal to 48224822. What is the maximal possible value of the differences between degrees of vertices? (Azer Kerimov).

Solution

Suppose that GG has nn vertices and kk edges and ii-th vertex has a degree did_i. The number of unordered edge pairs without common vertex is equal to
((k2)i=0n(di2))=k(k1)212i=0ndi2+k=k(k+1)212i=0ndi2 \left(\binom{k}{2} - \sum_{i=0}^{n} \binom{d_i}{2}\right) = \frac{k(k-1)}{2} - \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=0}^{n} d_i^2 + k = \frac{k(k+1)}{2} - \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=0}^{n} d_i^2
Therefore, i=030di2=1486\sum_{i=0}^{30} d_i^2 = 1486. Let δi=di7\delta_i = d_i - 7. Then i=030δi=0\sum_{i=0}^{30} \delta_i = 0 and 1486=i=030di2=i=03072+i=030δi21486 = \sum_{i=0}^{30} d_i^2 = \sum_{i=0}^{30} 7^2 + \sum_{i=0}^{30} \delta_i^2. Therefore, i=030δi2=16\sum_{i=0}^{30} \delta_i^2 = 16.

Thus, δi3|\delta_i| \le 3 and didj5d_i - d_j \le 5. An example with di=10,dj=5d_i = 10, d_j = 5 can be constructed by perturbation of regular graph of degree 77. The answer is 55.

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