Strengthening Wilf's lower bound on clique number
Discrete Mathematics
2025-04-08 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Given an integer , deciding whether a graph has a clique of size is an NP-complete problem. Wilf's inequality provides a spectral bound for the clique number of simple graphs. Wilf's inequality is stated as follows: , where is the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix , is the number of vertices in , and is the clique number of . Strengthening this bound, Elphick and Wocjan proposed a conjecture in 2018, which is stated as follows: , where and are the eigenvalues of . In this paper, we have settled this conjecture for some classes of graphs, such as conference graphs, strongly regular graphs with (i.e., ) and , the line graph of , the Cartesian product of strongly regular graphs, and Ramanujan graph with .
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@article{arxiv.2504.04836,
title = {Strengthening Wilf's lower bound on clique number},
author = {Hareshkumar Jadav and Sreekara Madyastha and Rahul Raut and Ranveer Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04836},
year = {2025}
}
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