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The spectral radius of graphs without long cycles

Combinatorics 2017-07-18 v1

Abstract

Nikiforov conjectured that for a given integer k2k\ge 2, any graph GG of sufficiently large order nn with spectral radius μ(G)μ(Sn,k)\mu(G)\geq \mu(S_{n,k}) (or μ(G)μ(Sn,k+))\mu(G)\ge \mu(S_{n,k}^+)) contains C2k+1C_{2k+1} or C2k+2C_{2k+2}(or C2k+2C_{2k+2}), unless G=Sn,kG=S_{n,k} (or G=Sn,k+)G=S_{n,k}^+), where CC_\ell is a cycle of length \ell and Sn,k=KkKnkS_{n,k}=K_k\vee \overline{K_{n-k}}, the join graph of a complete graph of order kk and an empty graph on nkn-k vertices, and Sn,k+S_{n,k}^+ is the graph obtained from Sn,kS_{n,k} by adding an edge in the independent set of Sn,kS_{n,k}. %This can be vie as spectral version of Erd\"{o}s and S\'{o}s conjecture. In this paper, a weaker version of Nikiforov's conjecture is considered, we prove that for a given integer k2k\ge 2, any graph GG of sufficiently large order nn with spectral radius μ(G)μ(Sn,k)\mu(G)\geq \mu(S_{n,k}) (or μ(G)μ(Sn,k+))\mu(G)\ge \mu(S_{n,k}^+)) %C2k+1C_{2k+1} or C2k+2C_{2k+2}(or C2k+2C_{2k+2}), unless G=Sn,kG=S_{n,k} (or G=Sn,k+)G=S_{n,k}^+)Sn,kS_{n,k} ( or Sn,k+S_{n,k}^+) is the unique extremal graph with maximum radius among all of the graphs of order nn and contains a cycle CC_{\ell} with 2k+1\ell \geq 2k+1 (or CC_{\ell} with 2k+2\ell \geq 2k+2), unless G=Sn,kG=S_{n,k} (or G=Sn,k+)G=S_{n,k}^+). These results also imply a result of Nikiforov given in [Theorem 2, The spectral radius of graphs without paths and cycles of specified length, LAA, 2010].

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@article{arxiv.1707.04810,
  title  = {The spectral radius of graphs without long cycles},
  author = {Jun Gao and Xinmin Hou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04810},
  year   = {2017}
}

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