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Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $\lambda_n(G)$ be the least eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix of $G$. In this paper, we give sharp bounds on the least eigenvalue of graphs without given pathes or cycles and determine the extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin , Shicai Gong

In this paper we deal with a Tur\'an-type problem: given a positive integer n and a forbidden graph H, how many edges can there be in a graph on n vertices without a subgraph H? How does a graph look like if it has this extremal edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Roman Glebov

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

An almost self-centered graph is a connected graph of order $n$ with exactly $n-2$ central vertices, and an almost peripheral graph is a connected graph of order $n$ with exactly $n-1$ peripheral vertices. We determine (1) the maximum girth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan

One of the earliest results in extremal graph theory, Mantel's theorem, states that the maximum number of edges in a triangle-free graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$. We investigate how this extremal bound is affected when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Natalie Behague , Debsoumya Chakraborti , Xizhi Liu

Tur\'{a}n type extremal problem is how to maximize the number of edges over all graphs which do not contain fixed forbidden subgraphs. Similarly, spectral Tur\'{a}n type extremal problem is how to maximize (signless Laplacian) spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

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 this paper we investigate the hypergraphs whose spectral radii attain the maximum among all uniform hypergraphs with given number of edges. In particular we characterize the hypergraph(s) with maximum spectral radius over all unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Yi-Zheng Fan , Ying-Ying Tan , Xi-Xi Peng , An-Hong Liu

We consider the problem of determining the inducibility (maximum possible asymptotic density of induced copies) of oriented graphs on four vertices. We provide exact values for more than half of the graphs, and very close lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Łukasz Bożyk , Andrzej Grzesik , Bartłomiej Kielak

The classic extremal problem is that of computing the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph. In the case where $F=K_{r+1}$, the extremal number was determined by Tur\'an. Later results, known as supersaturation theorems, proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Jonathan Cutler , JD Nir , A. J. Radcliffe

Computer or communication networks are so designed that they do not easily get disrupted under external attack and, moreover, these are easily reconstructible if they do get disrupted. These desirable properties of networks can be measured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-23 T. C. E. Cheng , Yinkui Li , Chuandong Xu , Shenggui Zhang

Let F(G) be a fixed linear combination of the k extremal eigenvalues of a graph G and of its complement. The problem of finding max{F(G):v(G)=n} generalizes a number of problems raised previously in the literature. We show that the limit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

To compute the hyperbolicity constant is an almost intractable problem, thus it is natural to try to bound it in terms of some parameters of the graph. Let $\mathcal{G}(g,c,n)$ be the set of graphs $G$ with girth $g(G)=g$, circumference…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Veronica Hernandez , Domingo Pestana , Jose M. Rodriguez

We establish tight lower and upper bounds on the number of edges in traceable graphs in several classes of dense graphs. A graph is traceable if it has a Hamiltonian path. We show that the bound is: - quadratic for the class of graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Michal Dvořák , Dušan Knop , Michal Opler , Jan Pokorný , Ondřej Suchý , Krisztina Szilágyi

We give inequalities relating the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix and the Laplacian of a graph, and its minimum and maximum degrees. The results are applied to derive new conditions for quasi-randomness of graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

We study the maximum number of edges in an $n$ vertex graph with Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter no more than $t$. We conjecture that for every integer $t$, if $G$ is a graph with at least $t$ vertices and Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Rose McCarty

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

We determine the maximum number of edges of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with the property that none of its $r$-cliques intersects a fixed set $M\subset V(G)$. For $(r-1)|M|\ge n$, the $(r-1)$-partite Turan graph turns out to be the unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Jan Hladký , Diana Piguet

We prove properties of extremal graphs of girth 5 and order 20 <=v <= 32. In each case we identify the possible minimum and maximum degrees, and in some cases prove the existence of (non-trivial) embedded stars. These proofs allow for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Alice Miller , Michael Codish

The $(k,r)$-fan is the graph consisting of $k$ copies of the complete graph $K_r$ which intersect in a single vertex, and is denoted by $F_{k,r}$. Erd\H{o}s, F\"uredi, Gould and Gunderson [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 64 (1995) 89--100]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Dheer Noal Desai , Liying Kang , Yongtao Li , Zhenyu Ni , Michael Tait , Jing Wang