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This paper generalizes and unifies the existing spectral bounds on the $k$-independence number of a graph, which is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. The previous bounds known in the literature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 A. Abiad , G. Coutinho , M. A. Fiol

The generalized distance spectral radius of a connected graph $G$ is the spectral radius of the generalized distance matrix of $G$, defined by $$D_\alpha(G)=\alpha Tr(G)+(1-\alpha)D(G), \;\;0\le\alpha \le 1,$$ where $D(G)$ and $Tr(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Shu-Yu Cui , Gui-Xian Tian , Lu Zheng

The edge-connectivity of a graph is the minimum number of edges whose deletion disconnects the graph. Let $\Delta(G)$ the maximum degree of a graph $G$ and let $\rho(G)$ be the spectral radius of $G$. In this article we present a lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Cristian Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

The spectral radius of a graph is the largest modulus of an eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Let $\mathcal{C}_{n, e}$ be the set of all the connected simple graphs with $n$ vertices and $n - 1 + e$ edges. Here, we solve the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Ivan Damnjanović

In this paper, we obtain two spectral upper bounds for the $k$-independence number of a graph which is is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. We construct graphs that attain equality for our first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Aida Abiad , Sebastian Cioabă , Michael Tait

This paper investigates the influence of two graft transformations on the distance spectral radius of connected uniform hypergraphs. Specifically, we study $k$-uniform hypertrees with given size, maximum degree and number of vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Xiaoqi Liu , Haiying Shan

A path of order $n$ is denoted by $P_n$, and a star of order $n$ is denoted by $S_{n-1}$. A star-path forest is a forest whose connected components are paths and stars. In this paper we determine the maximum spectral radius of graphs that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Yanni Zhai , Xiying Yuan , Lihua You

For a set of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, let $\ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ and $\spex(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the maximum number of edges and the maximum spectral radius of an $n$-vertex $\mathcal{F}$-free graph, respectively. Nikiforov ({\em LAA}, 2007)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Hongyu Wang , Xinmin Hou , Yue Ma

In this paper, we study the maximum adjacency spectral radii of graphs of large order that do not contain an even cycle of given length. For $n>k$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the join of a clique on $k$ vertices with an independent set of $n-k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Sebastian Cioabă , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

This paper investigates the maximum spectral radius of planar graphs with concrete fixed number of vertices, providing some tight bounds on the maximum spectral radius of general planar graph resorting to its order, and confirming that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Guanglong Yu , Lin Sun

Let $G$ be a connected graph with minimum degree $\delta(G)$ and vertex-connectivity $\kappa(G)$. The graph $G$ is $k$-connected if $\kappa(G)\geq k$, maximally connected if $\kappa(G) = \delta(G)$, and super-connected (or super-$\kappa$)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Zhen-Mu Hong , Zheng-Jiang Xia , Fuyuan Chen , Lutz Volkmann

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be a diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of $G$ as \begin{equation*} A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha G)+(1-\alpha)A(G),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Chang Liu , Zimo Yan , Jianping Li

Let $G(n,k)$ be the class of clique trees on $n$ vertices and zero forcing number $k$, where $\left \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \right \rfloor + 1 \le k \le n-1$ and each block is a clique of size at least $3$. In this article, we proved the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Joyentanuj Das

For a nonnegative integer $k$, a graph $G$ is said to be $k$-factor-critical if $G-Q$ admits a perfect matching for any $Q\subseteq V(G)$ with $|Q|=k$. In this article, we prove spectral radius conditions for the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Sizhong Zhou , Zhiren Sun , Yuli Zhang

Let $F_k=K_1\vee P_{k-1}$ be the fan graph on $k$ vertices. A graph is said to be $F_k$-free if it does not contain $F_k$ as a subgraph. Yu et al. in [arXiv:2404.03423] conjectured that for $k\geq2$ and $m$ sufficiently large, if $G$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Jing Gao , Xueliang Li

A connected graph is called a bi-block graph if each of its blocks is a complete bipartite graph. Let $\mathcal{B}(\mathbf{k}, \alpha)$ be the class of bi-block graph on $\mathbf{k}$ vertices with given independence number $\alpha$. It is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Joyentanuj Das , Sumit Mohanty

Let $\mathscr{G}_{n,\beta}$ be the set of graphs of order $n$ with given matching number $\beta$. Let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the degrees of the graph $G$ and $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of the graph $G$. The largest eigenvalue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Xiying Yuan , Zhenan Shao

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the $h$-extra $r$-component connectivity of a graph $G$, denoted by $c\kappa_{r}^{h}$, is defined as the minimum number of vertices whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Daoxia Zhang , Dan Li , Wenxiu Ding

The spectral radius of a graph is the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix. A threshold graph is a simple graph whose vertices can be ordered as $v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n$, so that for each $2 \le i \le n$, vertex $v_i$ is either adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Péter Csikvári , Ivan Damnjanović , Dragan Stevanović , Stephan Wagner

Let $F_k$ denote the $k$-fan consisting of $k$ triangles which intersect in exactly one common vertex, and $S_{n,k}$ the complete split graph of order $n$ consisting of a clique on $k$ vertices and an independent set on the remaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Yanhua Zhao , Xueyi Huang , Hangtian Guo