Sufficient conditions for maximally edge-connected and super-edge-connected graphs

Let G be a connected graph with minimum degree δ and edgeconnectivity λ. A graph is maximally edge-connected if λ = δ, and it is superedge-connected if every minimum edge-cut is trivial; that is, if every minimum edge-cut consists of edges incident with a vertex of minimum degree. In this paper, we show that a connected graph or a connected triangle-free graph is maximally edge-connected or super-edge-connected if the number of edges is large enough.