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Graphs with the minimum spectral radius for given independence number

Combinatorics 2022-06-22 v1

Abstract

Let Gn,α\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha} be the set of connected graphs with order nn and independence number α\alpha. Given k=nαk=n-\alpha, the graph with minimum spectral radius among Gn,α\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha} is called the minimizer graph. Stevanovi\'{c} in the classical book [D. Stevanovi\'{c}, Spectral Radius of Graphs, Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2015.] pointed that determining minimizer graph in Gn,α\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha} appears to be a tough problem on page 9696. Very recently, Lou and Guo in \cite{Lou} proved that the minimizer graph of Gn,α\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha} must be a tree if αn2\alpha\ge\lceil\frac{n}{2}\rceil. In this paper, we further give the structural features for the minimizer graph in detail, and then provide of a constructing theorem for it. Thus, theoretically we completely determine the minimizer graphs in Gn,α\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha} along with their spectral radius for any given k=nαn2k=n-\alpha\le \frac{n}{2}. As an application, we determine all the minimizer graphs in Gn,α\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha} for α=n1,n2,n3,n4,n5,n6\alpha=n-1,n-2,n-3,n-4,n-5,n-6 along with their spectral radii, the first four results are known in \cite{Xu,Lou} and the last two are new.

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@article{arxiv.2206.09152,
  title  = {Graphs with the minimum spectral radius for given independence number},
  author = {Yarong Hu and Qiongxiang Huang and Zhenzhen Lou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.09152},
  year   = {2022}
}
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