Let
be a graph with graph vertices
and graph
edges
on
graph vertices
without a
-clique. Then
where
is the edge count. (Note that the convention of Aigner
(1995) of considering
-cliques
has been replaced with the apparently slightly more standard indexing by considering
-cliques, providing consistency with
the usual definition of Turán graphs.)
The Turán graph is defined as the unique graph
without a
-clique having the maximum possible number of graph
edges, namely
where
denotes the floor function.