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Variants of spectral Tur\'an theorems and eigenvectors of graphs

Combinatorics 2025-10-14 v2

Abstract

In 2002, Nikiforov proved that for an nn-vertex graph GG with clique number ω\omega and edge number mm, the spectral radius λ(G)\lambda(G) satisfies λ(G)2(11/ω)m\lambda (G) \leq \sqrt{2(1 - 1/\omega) m}, which confirmed a conjecture implicitly suggested by Edwards and Elphick. In this paper, we prove a local version of spectral Tur\'an inequality, which states that λ2(G)2eE(G)c(e)1c(e)\lambda^2(G)\leq 2\sum_{e\in E(G)}\frac{c(e)-1}{c(e)}, where c(e)c(e) is the order of the largest clique containing the edge ee in GG. We also characterize the extremal graphs. We prove that our theorem implies Nikiforov's theorem and give an example to show that the difference of Nikiforov's bound and ours is Ω(m)\Omega (\sqrt{m}) for some cases. Additionally, we establish a spectral counterpart to Ore's problem (1962) which asks for the maximum size of an nn-vertex graph such that its complement is connected and does not contain FF as a subgraph. Our result leads to a new spectral Tur\'an inequality applicable to graphs with connected complements. Finally, we disprove a conjecture of Gregory, asserting that for a connected nn-vertex graph GG with chromatic number k2k\geq 2 and an independent set SS, we have vSxv212k22(k2)2+4(k1)(nk+1), \sum_{v\in S} x_v^2 \leq \frac{1}{2} - \frac{k-2}{2\sqrt{(k-2)^2 + 4(k-1)(n-k+1)}}, where xvx_v is the component of the Perron vector of GG with respect to the vertex vv. A modified version of Gregory's conjecture is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16138,
  title  = {Variants of spectral Tur\'an theorems and eigenvectors of graphs},
  author = {Lele Liu and Bo Ning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16138},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages. This is a new version of the previous paper titled "A local version of spectral Tur\'an theorem". In this version, we add more results, including a variant of spectral Tur\'an theorem and a disproof of a conjecture of Gregory