Abstract
Fix d≥3. We show the existence of a constant c>0 such that any graph of diameter at most d has average distance at most d−cd3/2n, where n is the number of vertices. Moreover, we exhibit graphs certifying sharpness of this bound up to the choice of c. This constitutes an asymptotic solution to a longstanding open problem of Plesník. Furthermore we solve the problem exactly for digraphs if the order is large compared with the diameter.
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