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A graph is called $F$-free if it does not contain a copy of $F$. Let $G(r,s)$ denote a $K_{r+1}$-free graph of order $n$ with chromatic number at least $s$ that maximizes the spectral radius. Nikiforov [Linear Algebra Appl., 2007] proved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Yinfen Zhu , Huiqiu Lin

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

Given a planar graph family $\mathcal{F}$, let ${\rm ex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n,\mathcal{F})$ and ${\rm spex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n,\mathcal{F})$ be the maximum size and maximum spectral radius over all $n$-vertex $\mathcal{F}$-free planar graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin , Yongtang Shi

The generalized Tur\'an number $\ex(n,K_s,F)$ denotes the maximum number of copies of $K_s$ in an $n$-vertex $F$-free graph. Let $kF$ denote $k$ disjoint copies of $F$. Gerbner, Methuku and Vizer [DM, 2019, 3130-3141] gave a lower bound for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Fangfang Zhang , Yaojun Chen , Ervin Gyori , Xiutao Zhu

Let $H_{s,t_1,\ldots ,t_k}$ be the graph with $s$ triangles and $k$ odd cycles of lengths $t_1,\ldots ,t_k\ge 5$ intersecting in exactly one common vertex. Recently, Hou, Qiu and Liu [Discrete Math. 341 (2018) 126--137], and Yuan [J. Graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Yongtao Li , Yuejian Peng

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

This paper generalizes and unifies the existing spectral bounds on the $k$-independence number of a graph, which is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. The previous bounds known in the literature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 A. Abiad , G. Coutinho , M. A. Fiol

The extremal graphs $\mathrm{EX}(n,\mathcal F)$ and spectral extremal graphs $\mathrm{SPEX}(n,\mathcal F)$ are the sets of graphs on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges and maximum spectral radius, respectively, with no subgraph in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 John Byrne , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

A graph is minimally $k$-connected ($k$-edge-connected) if it is $k$-connected ($k$-edge-connected) and deleting arbitrary chosen edge always leaves a graph which is not $k$-connected ($k$-edge-connected). A classic result of minimally…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Zhenzhen Lou , Min Gao , Qiongxiang Huang

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

A graph $G$ is $H$-free, if it contains no $H$ as a subgraph. A graph is said to be \emph{$H$-minor free}, if it does not contain $H$ as a minor. In recent years, Nikiforov asked that what is the maximum spectral radius of an $H$-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Yuan Ren , Jing Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhang

Let $G$ be a graph of size $m$ and $\rho(G)$ be the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix. A graph is said to be $F$-free if it does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $F$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a $K_{2,r+1}$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xiaona Fang , Lihua You

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

Let $t\geq3$ and $G$ be a graph of order $n,$ with no $K_{2,t}$ minor. If $n>400t^{6}$, then the spectral radius $\mu\left( G\right) $ satisfies \[ \mu\left( G\right) \leq\frac{t-1}{2}+\sqrt{n+\frac{t^{2}-2t-3}{4}}, \] with equality if and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-07 V. Nikiforov

For $r \geq 2$, we show that every maximal $K_{r+1}$-free graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with $(1-\frac{1}{r})\frac{n^2}{2}-o(n^{\frac{r+1}{r}})$ edges contains a complete $r$-partite subgraph on $(1 - o(1))n$ vertices. We also show that this is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Kamil Popielarz , Julian Sahasrabudhe , Richard Snyder

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

The classical Simonovits' chromatic critical edge theorem shows that for sufficiently large $n$, if $H$ is an edge-color-critical graph with $\chi(H)=p+1\ge 3$, then the Tur\'an graph $T_{n,p}$ is the unique extremal graph with respect to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Bing Wang , Wenwen Chen , Ping Zhang

A graph on $2k+1$ vertices consisting of $k$ triangles which intersect in exactly one common vertex is called a $k$-fan and denoted by $F_k$. This paper aims to determine the graphs of order $n$ that have the maximum (adjacency) spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Sebastian Cioaba , Lihua Feng , Michael Tait , Xiao-Dong Zhang

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 $n,m$ be integers such that $1\leq m\leq (n-2)/2$ and let $[n]=\{1,\ldots,n\}$. Let $\mathcal{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_{m+1}\}$ be a family of graphs on the same vertex set $[n]$. In this paper, we prove that if for any $i\in [m+1]$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Mingyang Guo , Hongliang Lu , Xinxin Ma , Xiao Ma