Variants of spectral Tur\'an theorems and eigenvectors of graphs
Abstract
In 2002, Nikiforov proved that for an -vertex graph with clique number and edge number , the spectral radius satisfies , 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 , where is the order of the largest clique containing the edge in . 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 for some cases. Additionally, we establish a spectral counterpart to Ore's problem (1962) which asks for the maximum size of an -vertex graph such that its complement is connected and does not contain 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 -vertex graph with chromatic number and an independent set , we have where is the component of the Perron vector of with respect to the vertex . 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