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For a graph $G$ with $m$ edges, let $\rho(G)$ be its spectral radius, and let $N_F(G)$ denote the number of copies of $F$ in $G$. Nikiforov [Combin. Probab.\,Comput., 2002] proved that for $r\geq 2$, if $\rho(G)>\sqrt{(1-1/r)2m}$, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin , Mingqing Zhai

Let $\mu(G)$ denote the spectral radius of a graph $G$. We partly confirm a conjecture due to Nikiforov, which is a spectral radius analogue of the well-known Erd\H{o}s-S\'os Conjecture that any tree of order $t$ is contained in a graph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Xiangxiang Liu , Hajo Broersma , Ligong Wang

Given a hereditary family $\mathcal{G}$ of admissible graphs and a function $\lambda(G)$ that linearly depends on the statistics of order-$\kappa$ subgraphs in a graph $G$, we consider the extremal problem of determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Oleg Pikhurko , Jakub Sliacan , Konstantinos Tyros

We determine the extremal graph $G$ of order $n$ that maximizes the sum of the spectral radii of $G$ and its complement. This resolves a conjecture posed by Stevanovi\'{c} in 2007.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Yen-Jen Cheng , Chih-wen Weng

We systematically study a natural problem in extremal graph theory, to minimize the number of edges in a graph with a fixed number of vertices, subject to a certain local condition: each vertex must be in a copy of a fixed graph $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

For two graphs $G$ and $F$, the extremal number of $F$ in $G$, denoted by {ex}$(G,F)$, is the maximum number of edges in a spanning subgraph of $G$ not containing $F$ as a subgraph. Determining {ex}$(K_n,F)$ for a given graph $F$ is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junxue Zhang

We study regular graphs whose distance-$2$ graph or distance-$1$-or-$2$ graph is strongly regular. We provide a characterization of such graphs $\Gamma$ (among regular graphs with few distinct eigenvalues) in terms of the spectrum and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , J. Koolen

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$, and let $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ be the adjacency matrix and the degree matrix of $G$ respectively. Define the convex linear combinations $A_\alpha (G)$ of $A (G)$ and $D (G) $ by $$A_\alpha (G)=\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Let $tK_4$ denote the family of all graphs consisting of $t$ copies of $K_4$ that are allowed to share vertices and $t\mathcal{K}_{4}^{-}$ be the set of all unbalanced signed graphs whose underlying graphs are elements of $tK_4$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Linfeng Xie , Xiaogang Liu

For $0\leq \alpha < 1$, the $\mathcal{A}_{\alpha}$-spectral radius of a $k$-uniform hypergraph $G$ is defined to be the spectral radius of the tensor $\mathcal{A}_{\alpha}(G):=\alpha \mathcal{D}(G)+(1-\alpha) \mathcal{A}(G)$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Peng-Li Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Given a family of $k$-hypergraphs $\mathcal{F}$, $ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ is the maximum number of edges a $k$-hypergraph can have, knowing that said hypergraph has $n$ vertices but contains no copy of any hypergraph from $\mathcal{F}$ as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Matthew Fitch

In his survey "Beyond graph energy: Norms of graphs and matrices" (2016), Nikiforov proposed two problems concerning characterizing the graphs that attain equality in a lower bound and in a upper bound for the energy of a graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 N. E. Arévalo , R. O. Braga , V. M. Rodrigues

For $0\le\alpha<1$ and a uniform hypergraph $G$, the $\alpha$-spectral radius of $G$ is the largest $H$-eigenvalue of $\alpha \mathcal{D}(G) +(1-\alpha)\mathcal{A}(G)$, where $\mathcal{D}(G)$ and $\mathcal{A}(G)$ are the diagonal tensor of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-24 HaiYan Guo , Bo Zhou

A Berge-path of length $k$ in a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ is a sequence $v_1,e_1,v_2,e_2,\dots,v_{k},e_k,v_{k+1}$ of distinct vertices and hyperedges with $v_{i},v_{i+1} \in e_i$, for $i \le k$. F\"uredi, Kostochka and Luo, and independently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Dániel Gerbner , Dániel T. Nagy , Balázs Patkós , Nika Salia , Máté Vizer

There are various different notions measuring extremality of hypergraphs. In this survey we compare the recently introduced notion of the codegree squared extremal function with the Tur\'an function, the minimum codegree threshold and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-20 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Bernard Lidický

For $0\le \alpha\le 1$, Nikiforov proposed to study the spectral properties of the family of matrices $A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G)$ of a graph $G$, where $D(G)$ is the degree diagonal matrix and $A(G)$ is the adjacency matrix.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Haiyan Guo , Bo Zhou

A classical object in hypergraph Tur\'{a}n theory is the Fano plane $\mathbb{F}$, the unique linear $3$-graph on seven vertices with seven edges. The Tur\'{a}n density and exact Tur\'{a}n number of $\mathbb{F}$, first proposed as a problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Yixiao Zhang

Given a family of $r$-uniform hypergraphs ${\cal F}$ (or $r$-graphs for brevity), the Tur\'an number $ex(n,{\cal F})$ of ${\cal F}$ is the maximum number of edges in an $r$-graph on $n$ vertices that does not contain any member of ${\cal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Axel Brandt , David Irwin , Tao Jiang

This note answers extremal questions like: what is the maximum number of edges in a graph of order n, which belongs to some hereditary property. The same question is answered also for the spectral radius and other similar parameters.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Vladimir Nikiforov

The $kK_{r+1}$ is the union of $k$ disjoint copies of $(r+1)$-clique. Moon [Canad. J. Math. 20 (1968) 95--102] and Simonovits [Theory of Graphs (Proc. colloq., Tihany, 1996)] independently showed that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Zhenyu Ni , Jing Wang , Liying Kang