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Spectral radius and clique partitions of graphs

Combinatorics 2021-11-05 v1

Abstract

We give lower bounds on the size and total size of clique partitions of a graph in terms of its spectral radius and minimum degree, and derive a spectral upper bound for the maximum number of edge-disjoint tt-cliques. The extremal graphs attaining the bounds are exactly the block graphs of Steiner 22-designs and the regular graphs with KtK_t-decompositions, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2111.02734,
  title  = {Spectral radius and clique partitions of graphs},
  author = {Jiang Zhou and Edwin R. van Dam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02734},
  year   = {2021}
}