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The maximum spectral radius of wheel-free graphs

Combinatorics 2020-08-03 v2

Abstract

A wheel graph is a graph formed by connecting a single vertex to all vertices of a cycle. A graph is called wheel-free if it does not contain any wheel graph as a subgraph. In 2010, Nikiforov proposed a Brualdi-Solheid-Tur\'{a}n type problem: what is the maximum spectral radius of a graph of order nn that does not contain subgraphs of particular kind. In this paper, we study the Brualdi-Solheid-Tur\'{a}n type problem for wheel-free graphs, and we determine the maximum (signless Laplacian) spectral radius of a wheel-free graph of order nn. Furthermore, we characterize the extremal graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2007.06922,
  title  = {The maximum spectral radius of wheel-free graphs},
  author = {Yanhua Zhao and Xueyi Huang and Huiqiu Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.06922},
  year   = {2020}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures