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A spectral Erd\H{o}s-Rademacher theorem

Combinatorics 2024-06-11 v1

Abstract

A classical result of Erd\H{o}s and Rademacher (1955) indicates a supersaturation phenomenon. It says that if GG is a graph on nn vertices with at least n2/4+1\lfloor {n^2}/{4} \rfloor +1 edges, then GG contains at least n/2\lfloor {n}/{2}\rfloor triangles. We prove a spectral version of Erd\H{o}s--Rademacher's theorem. Moreover, Mubayi [Adv. Math. 225 (2010)] extends the result of Erd\H{o}s and Rademacher from a triangle to any color-critical graph. It is interesting to study the extension of Mubayi from a spectral perspective. However, it is not apparent to measure the increment on the spectral radius of a graph comparing to the traditional edge version (Mubayi's result). In this paper, we provide a way to measure the increment on the spectral radius of a graph and propose a spectral version on the counting problems for color-critical graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2406.05609,
  title  = {A spectral Erd\H{o}s-Rademacher theorem},
  author = {Yongtao Li and Lu Lu and Yuejian Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05609},
  year   = {2024}
}

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27 pages, 5 figures. Any comments and suggestions are welcome

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