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The spectral Tur\'an theorem states that the $k$-partite Tur\'an graph is the unique graph attaining the maximum adjacency spectral radius among all graphs of order $n$ containing no the complete graph $K_{k+1}$ as a subgraph. This result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Lele Liu , Zhenyu Ni , Jing Wang , Liying Kang

Spectral graph theory studies how the eigenvalues of a graph relate to the structural properties of a graph. In this paper, we solve three open problems in spectral extremal graph theory which generalize the classical Tur\'{a}n-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

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

Graph theory on surfaces extends classical graph structures to topological surfaces, providing a theoretical foundation for characterizing the embedding properties of complex networks in constrained spaces. The study of bounding the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

In recent years several classical results in extremal graph theory have been improved in a uniform way and their proofs have been simplified and streamlined. These results include a new Erd\H{o}s-Stone-Bollob\'as theorem, several stability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Vladimir Nikiforov

The spectral extrema problems on forbidding minors have aroused wide attention. Very recently, Zhai and Lin [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 157 (2022) 184--215] determined the extremal graph with maximum adjacency spectral radius among all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Yanting Zhang , Zhenzhen Lou

A family of graphs is called degenerate if it contains at least one bipartite graph. In this paper, we investigate the spectral extremal problems for a degenerate family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$. By employing covering and independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Jiadong Wu , Liying Kang , Zhenyu Ni

For positive integers $n>k>t$ let $\binom{[n]}{k}$ denote the collection of all $k$-subsets of the standard $n$-element set $[n]=\{1,\ldots,n\}$. Subsets of $\binom{[n]}{k}$ are called $k$-graphs. A $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Peter Frankl , Jian Wang

An $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph) is linear if any two edges intersect at most one vertex. For a graph $F$, a hypergraph $H$ is Berge-$F$ if there is a bijection $\phi:E(F)\rightarrow E(H)$ such that $e\subseteq \phi(e)$ for all $e$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Junpeng Zhou , Xiying Yuan , Wen-Huan Wang

An important theorem about the spectral Tur\'an problem of $K_{a,b}$ was largely developed in separate papers. Recently it was completely resolved by Zhai and Lin [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 157 (2022) 184-215], which also confirms a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Xingyu Lei , Shuchao Li

In this note, we adapt the Keevash-Sudakov proof of the (Tur\'{a}n) Stability Theorem for the Fano plane to find an explicit dependency between the parameters $\varepsilon$ and $\delta$. This is useful in the solution of a multicolored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Carlos Hoppen , Hanno Lefmann , Knut Odermann

Let $spex(n,H_{minor})$ denote the maximum spectral radius of $n$-vertex $H$-minor free graphs. The problem on determining this extremal value can be dated back to the early 1990s. Up to now, it has been solved for $n$ sufficiently large…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

For every positive integer $t$ we construct a finite family of triple systems ${\mathcal M}_t$, determine its Tur\'{a}n number, and show that there are $t$ extremal ${\mathcal M}_t$-free configurations that are far from each other in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi , Christian Reiher

For $0 \leq \alpha < 1$, the $\alpha$-spectral radius of a graph $G$ is defined as the largest eigenvalue of $A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G)$, where $D(G)$ and $A(G)$ are the diagonal matrix of degrees and adjacency matrix of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiadong Wu , Yongchun Lu , Liying Kang

Tait and Tobin [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 126 (2017) 137--161] determined the unique spectral extremal graph over all outerplanar graphs and the unique spectral extremal graph over all planar graphs when the number of vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Liangdong Fan , Liying Kang , Jiadong Wu

The $p$-spectral radius of a graph $G\ $of order $n$ is defined for any real number $p\geq1$ as \[ \lambda^{\left( p\right) }\left( G\right) =\max\left\{ 2\sum_{\{i,j\}\in E\left( G\right) \ }x_{i}x_{j}:x_{1},\ldots,x_{n}\in\mathbb{R}\text{…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Liying Kang , Vladimir Nikiforov

Let $\mathcal{F}$ denote a set of graphs. A graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal{F}$-free if it does not contain any element of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. The Tur\'an number is the maximum possible number of edges in an $\mathcal{F}$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Shuchao Li , Wanting Sun , Wei Wei

For a graph $H$, the {\em extremal number} $ex(n,H)$ is the maximum number of edges in a graph of order $n$ not containing a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Let $\delta(H)>0$ and $\Delta(H)$ denote the minimum degree and maximum degree of $H$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Noga Alon , Raphael Yuster

Let $F_s$ be the friendship graph obtained from $s$ triangles by sharing a common vertex. For fixed $s\ge 2$ and sufficiently large $n$, the $F_s$-free graphs of order $n$ which attain the maximal spectral radius was firstly characterized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Xiaocong He , Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$, the \emph{codegree squared sum} $\text{co}_2(\mathcal{H})$ is the square of the $\ell_2$-norm of the codegree vector of $\mathcal{H}$, and for a family $\mathscr{F}$ of $k$-uniform hypergraphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 George Brooks , William Linz