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It is known that the spectral radius of a digraph with k edges is \le \sqrt{k}, and that this inequality is strict except when k is a perfect square. For k=m^2 + \ell, \ell fixed, m large, Friedland showed that the optimal digraph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jan Snellman

In this paper, we make progress on a question related to one of Galvin that has attracted substantial attention recently. The question is that of determining among all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices and $\Delta(G)\leq r$, which has the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Jonathan Cutler , A. J. Radcliffe

A $k$-cyclic graph is a connected graph of order $n$ and size $n+k-1$. In this paper, we determine the maximal signless Laplacian spectral radius and the corresponding extremal graph among all $C_{4}$-free $k$-cyclic graphs of order $n$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Qi Kong , Ligong Wang

We determine the unique hypergraphs with maximum spectral radius among all connected $k$-uniform ($k\geq 3$) unicyclic hypergraphs with matching number at least $z$, and among all connected $k$-uniform ($k\geq 3$) unicyclic hypergraphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Guanglong Yu , Chao Yan , Yarong Wu , Hailiang Zhang

Nikiforov [Some inequalities for the largest eigenvalue of a graph, Combin. Probab. Comput. 179--189] showed that if $G$ is $K_{r+1}$-free then the spectral radius $\rho(G)\leq\sqrt{2m(1-1/r)}$, which implies that $G$ contains $C_3$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin , Jinlong Shu

Write $\rho\left( G\right) $ for the spectral radius of a graph $G$ and $S_{n,r}$ for the join $K_{r}\vee\overline{K}_{n-r}.$ Let $n>r\geq2$ and $G$ be a $K_{r+1}$-saturated graph of order $n.$ Recently Kim, Kim, Kostochka, and O determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-11 V. Nikiforov

In this paper, we obtain two spectral upper bounds for the $k$-independence number of a graph which is is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. We construct graphs that attain equality for our first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Aida Abiad , Sebastian Cioabă , Michael Tait

For a nonnegative integer $k$, a graph $G$ is said to be $k$-factor-critical if $G-Q$ admits a perfect matching for any $Q\subseteq V(G)$ with $|Q|=k$. In this article, we prove spectral radius conditions for the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Sizhong Zhou , Zhiren Sun , Yuli Zhang

The spectral Tur\'an number $\spex(n, F)$ denotes the maximum spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of an $F$-free graph $G$ of order $n$. This paper determines $\spex\left(n, C_{2k+1}^{\square}\right)$ for all sufficiently large $n$, establishing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Xinhui Duan , Lu Lu

The spread of a graph $G$ is the difference $\lambda_1 - \lambda_n$ between the largest and smallest eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. Breen, Riasanovsky, Tait and Urschel recently determined the graph on $n$ vertices with maximum spread…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-10 George Brooks , William Linz , Linyuan Lu

A stability result due to Ren, Wang, Wang and Yang [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 38 (2024)] shows that if $3\le r \le 2k$ and $n\ge 318 (r-2)^2k$, and $G$ is a $C_{2k+1}$-free graph on $n$ vertices with $e(G)\ge \lfloor {(n-r+1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +{r…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Lantao Zou , Yongtao Li , Yuejian Peng

For a graph $G$, the spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we give three lammas on $\rho(G)$ when $G$ contains a spanning complete bipartite graph. Using these lemmas and typical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Wenqian Zhang

Let $H_7$ denote the $7$-vertex \textit{fan graph} consisting of a $6$-vertex path plus a vertex adjacent to each vertex of the path. Let $K_3 \vee \frac{m-3}{3}K_1$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a triangle $K_3$ to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Yanting Zhang , Ligong Wang

Let $F_k$ denote the $k$-fan consisting of $k$ triangles which intersect in exactly one common vertex, and $S_{n,k}$ the complete split graph of order $n$ consisting of a clique on $k$ vertices and an independent set on the remaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Yanhua Zhao , Xueyi Huang , Hangtian Guo

Nielsen proved that the maximum number of maximal independent sets (MIS's) of size $k$ in an $n$-vertex graph is asymptotic to $(n/k)^k$, with the extremal construction a disjoint union of $k$ cliques with sizes as close to $n/k$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Xiaoyu He , Jiaxi Nie , Sam Spiro

Given a graph $H$, a graph is said to be $H$-free if it does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. A graph is color-critical when it has an edge whose removal leads to a reduction in its chromatic number. For a graph $H$ with a chromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yuantian Yu , Shuchao Li

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

This paper presents sufficient conditions for Hamiltonian paths and cycles in graphs. Letting $\lambda\left( G\right) $ denote the spectral radius of the adjacency matrix of a graph $G,$ the main results of the paper are: (1) Let $k\geq1,$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Vladimir Nikiforov

For a graph $G$, its spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. A fan $H_{\ell}$ is a graph obtained by connecting a single vertex to all vertices of a path of order $\ell\geq4$. Let ${\rm SPEX(n,H_{\ell})}$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Wenqian Zhang

Recently Cutler and Radcliffe proved that the graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $r$ having the most cliques is a disjoint union of $\lfloor n/(r+1)\rfloor$ cliques of size $r+1$ together with a clique on the remainder of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Rachel Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe