Maximum number of edges in a concave polyhedron given n vertices

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Given $n$ vertices of a concave polyhedron (3D), what are the maximum amount of edges it can have?

I know for convex polyhedra the upper bound is $3n-6$. Does this also hold for concave polyhedra?

Also, if $3n-6$ edges is also the upper bound for concave polyhedra, is this due to the fact that every concave polyhedron can be represented as a planar graph?

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It depends on how you define polyhedron. Do you allow "holes" like in a donut? While I have no answer to the case of general $n$ (this might be very hard), here is a polyhedron on $n=7$ vertices with the maximal number of

$${7\choose 2}=21 \;\text{ edges},$$

which is bigger than $3n-6=15$.

It is called the Császár polyhedron, and there is an edge between any two vertices: