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Spectral graph bisections are a popular heuristic aimed at approximating the solution of the NP-complete graph bisection problem. This technique, however, does not always provide a robust tool for graph partitioning. Using a special class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-22 John C. Urschel , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

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

Determining the maximum number of edges under degree and matching number constraints have been solved for general graphs by Chv\'{a}tal and Hanson (1976), and by Balachandran and Khare (2009). It follows from the structure of those extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Milad Ahanjideh , Tınaz Ekim , Mehmet Akif Yıldız

In 1965 Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the number of edges in k-uniform hypergraphs on n vertices in which the largest matching has s edges is maximized for hypergraphs of one of two special types. We settled this conjecture in the affirmative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tomasz Luczak , Katarzyna Mieczkowska

We determine the maximum number of maximal independent sets of arbitrary graphs in terms of their covering numbers and we completely characterize the extremal graphs. As an application, we give a similar result for K\"onig-Egerv\'ary graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Do Trong Hoang , Tran Nam Trung

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

A connected nontrivial graph $G$ is {\it matching covered} if every edge of $G$ is contained in some perfect matching of $G$. A matching covered graph $G$ is {\it minimal} if $G-e$ is not matching covered for each edge $e$ of $G$. A graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Liwen Lian , Jinfeng Liu , Mengyuan Niu , Xiumei Wang

Let $G$ be a graph attaining the maximum spectral radius among all connected nonregular graphs of order $n$ with maximum degree $\Delta$. Let $\lambda_1(G)$ be the spectral radius of $G$. A nice conjecture due to Liu, Shen and Wang [On the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Lele Liu

This article provides sharp bounds for the maximum number of edges possible in a simple graph with restricted values of two of the three parameters, namely, maxi- mum matching size, independence number and maximum degree. We also construct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-08 Niraj Khare , Nishali Mehta , Naushad Puliyambalath

In this paper, we characterize the extremal digraphs with the maximal or minimal $\alpha$-spectral radius among some digraph classes such as rose digraphs, generalized theta digraphs and tri-ring digraphs with given size $m$. These digraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Haiying Shan , Feifei Wang , Changxiang He

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

For a simple graph $F$, let $\mathrm{EX}(n, F)$ and $\mathrm{EX_{sp}}(n,F)$ be the set of graphs with the maximum number of edges and the set of graphs with the maximum spectral radius in an $n$-vertex graph without any copy of the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Zhenyu Ni , Jing Wang , Liying Kang

A factor of a graph is essentially a specific type spanning subgraph. The study of characterizing the existence of $[a, b]$-factors based on eigenvalue conditions can be traced back to the work of Brouwer and Haemers (2005) on perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Zengzhao Xu , Ligong Wang , Weige Xi

In 1970 Nosal gave upper and lower bounds on the sum of the spectral radii of a graph and its complement. We generalize this problem to other eigenvalues and give a number of bounds. We essentially solve the corresponding problem for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

The problem of determining extremal hypergraphs containing at most r isomorphic copies of some element of a given hypergraph family was first studied by Boros et al. in 2001. There are not many hypergraph families for which exact results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-18 Yeow Meng Chee , Alan C. H. Ling

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph of size $m$. Let $A$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$ and let $\rho(G)$ be the spectral radius of $G$. A graph is said to be $H$-free if it does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Let $H(\ell,3)$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Amir Rehman , S. Pirzada

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. For any real $\alpha\in [0,1]$, Nikiforov [Merging the $A$- and $Q$-spectral theories, Appl. Anal. Discrete Math. 11 (2017)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Huiqiu Lin , Xing Huang , Jie Xue

In this paper we study the maximum value of the largest eigenvalue for simple bipartite graphs, where the number of edges is given and the number of vertices on each side of the bipartition is given. We state a conjectured solution, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-10 Amitava Bhattacharya , Shmuel Friedland , Uri N. Peled

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

Brualdi and Hoffman proposed a well-known problem of determining the graph with maximum adjacency spectral radius among all graphs with given size $m$. Early work by Friedland and Stanley addressed some specific cases. This problem was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Hongzhang Chen , Jianxi Li , Yongtao Li