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The $f$ adjacency matrix is a type of edge-weighted adjacency matrix, whose weight of an edge $ij$ is $f(d_i,d_j)$, where $f$ is a real symmetric function and $d_i,d_j$ are the degrees of vertex $i$ and vertex $j$. The $f$-spectral radius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Chenghao Shen , Haiying Shan

A graph $G$ is said to be $F$-free if it does not contain $F$ as a subgraph. A theta graph, say $\theta_{l_1,l_2,l_3}$, is the graph obtained by connecting two distinct vertices with three internally disjoint paths of length $l_1, l_2,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Jing Gao , Xueliang Li

Minors play an important role in extremal graph theory and spectral extremal graph theory. Tait [The Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter, excluded minors, and the spectral radius, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 166 (2019) 42--58] determined the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin

Let D be a strongly connected digraph and A(D) be the adjacency matrix of D. Let diag(D) be the diagonal matrix with outdegrees of the vertices of D and Q(D) = diag(D) + A(D) be the signless Laplacian matrix of D. The spectral radius of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Wenxi Hong , Lihua You

The $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of a graph $G$ is the convex linear combination of the adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees $D(G)$, i.e., $A_{\alpha}(G) = \alpha D(G) + (1 - \alpha)A(G)$, where $0\leq\alpha \leq1$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Yanting Zhang , Ligong 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

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

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

Let $G$ be a digraph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and outdegrees diagonal matrix $D(G)$. For any real $\alpha\in[0,1]$, the $A_\alpha$ matrix $A_\alpha(G)$ of a digraph $G$ is defined as $A_\alpha(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G)$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Weige Xi

We give lower bounds on the size and total size of clique partitions of a graph in terms of its spectral radius and minimum degree, and derive a spectral upper bound for the maximum number of edge-disjoint $t$-cliques. The extremal graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Jiang Zhou , Edwin R. van Dam

It is well-known that the Brualdi-Hoffman-Tur\'an-type problem inquiries about the maximum spectral radius \( \lambda(G) \) of an \( F \)-free graph \( G \) with \( m \) edges. Let \( \theta_{1,p,q} \) denote the theta graph, which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Shuchao Li , Sishu Zhao , Lantao Zou

A graph is trivial if it contains one vertex and no edges. The essential connectivity $\kappa^{\prime}$ of $G$ is defined to be the minimum number of vertices of $G$ whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least two non-trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Wenxiu Ding , Dan Li , Yu Wang , Jixiang Meng

Let $G$ be a digraph and $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. Let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix with outdegrees of vertices of $G$. For any real $\alpha\in[0,1]$, Liu et al. \cite{LWCL} defined the matrix $A_\alpha(G)$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Weige Xi , Wasin So , Ligong Wang

Let $\mathcal {F}$ be a given family of graphs. A graph $G$ is $\mathcal {F}$-free if it does not contain any member of $\mathcal {F}$ as a subgraph. Let $C_{l, l}$ be a graph obtained from $2C_l$ such that the two cycles share a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-17 HaoRan Zhang , WenHuan Wang

For a graph family $\mathcal F$, let $\mathrm{ex}(n,\mathcal F)$ and $\mathrm{spex}(n,\mathcal F)$ denote the maximum number of edges and maximum spectral radius of an $n$-vertex $\mathcal F$-free graph, respectively, and let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 John Byrne

Let $F_k$ be the (friendship) graph obtained from $k$ triangles by sharing a common vertex. The $F_k$-free graphs of order $n$ which attain the maximal spectral radius was firstly characterized by Cioab\u{a}, Feng, Tait and Zhang [Electron.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Yongtao Li , Lu Lu , Yuejian Peng

We study two extremal problems about subgraphs excluding a family $\F$ of graphs. i) Among all graphs with $m$ edges, what is the smallest size $f(m,\F)$ of a largest $\F$--free subgraph? ii) Among all graphs with minimum degree $\delta$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Florent Foucaud , Michael Krivelevich , Guillem Perarnau

Caro, Davila, and Pepper (arXiv:1909.09093) recently proved $\delta(G) \alpha(G)\leq \Delta(G) \mu(G)$ for every graph $G$ with minimum degree $\delta(G)$, maximum degree $\Delta(G)$, independence number $\alpha(G)$, and matching number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Elena Mohr , Dieter Rautenbach

A classical result of Nosal asserts that every $m$-edge graph with spectral radius $\lambda (G)> \sqrt{m}$ contains a triangle. A celebrated extension of Nikiforov [35] states that if $G$ is an $m$-edge graph with $\lambda (G)> \sqrt{(1-…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

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