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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

The spectral extremal problem of planar graphs has aroused a lot of interest over the past three decades. In 1991, Boots and Royle [Geogr. Anal. 23(3) (1991) 276--282] (and Cao and Vince [Linear Algebra Appl. 187 (1993) 251--257]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Xiaolong Wang , Xueyi Huang , Huiqiu Lin

Let $F_l$ be the fan graph obtained by joining a vertex with a path on $l-1$ vertices. Yu, Li and Peng [Discrete Math. 346 (2023)] conjectured that if the number of edges of $G$ is $m$ and the spectral radius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Loujun Yu , Yuejian Peng

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

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

Let ${\rm spex}(n,F)$ be the maximum spectral radius over all $F$-free graphs of order $n$, and ${\rm SPEX}(n,F)$ be the family of $F$-free graphs of order $n$ with spectral radius equal to ${\rm spex}(n,F)$. Given integers $n,k,p$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin , Jinlong Shu , Zhiyuan Zhang

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 well-known result of Mantel asserts that every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph $G$ has at most $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ edges. Moreover, Erd\H{o}s proved that if $G$ is further non-bipartite, then $e(G)\le \lfloor {(n-1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +1$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lantao Zou , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li

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 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

A central topic in extremal graph theory is the supersaturation problem, which studies the minimum number of copies of a fixed substructure that must appear in any graph with more edges than the corresponding Tur\'an number. Significant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Longfei Fang , Yongtao Li , Huiqiu Lin

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 ${\rm ex}(n,F)$ and ${\rm spex}(n,F)$ be the maximum size and maximum spectral radius of an $F$-free graph of order $n$, respectively. The value ${\rm spex}(n,F)$ is called the spectral extremal value of $F$. Nikiforov [J. Graph Theory…

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

We study the extremal problem that relates the spectral radius $\lambda (G)$ of an $F$-free graph $G$ with its number of edges. Firstly, we prove that for any graph $F$ with chromatic number $\chi (F)=r+1\ge 3$, if $G$ is an $F$-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

For a simple graph $F$, let $\mathrm{Ex}(n, F)$ and $\mathrm{Ex_{sp}}(n,F)$ denote 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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Jing Wang , Liying Kang , Yusai Xue

Let $\emph{spex}_{\mathcal{OP}}(n,F)$ and $\emph{spex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n,F)$ be the maximum spectral radius over all $n$-vertex $F$-free outerplanar graphs and planar graphs, respectively. Define $tC_l$ as $t$ vertex-disjoint $l$-cycles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Xilong Yin , Dan Li

The spectral extrema problems on forbidding minors have aroused wide attention. Very recently, Zhai and Lin [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 157 (2022) 184--215] determined the extremal graph with maximum adjacency spectral radius among all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Yanting Zhang , Zhenzhen Lou

In the 1960s, Erd\H{o}s and his cooperators initiated the research of the maximum numbers of edges in a graph or a planar graph on $n$ vertices without $k$ edge-disjoint cycles. This problem had been solved for $k\leq4$. As pointed out by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Zhai Mingqing , Liu Muhuo

Let $F_k=K_1\vee P_{k-1}$ be the fan graph on $k$ vertices. A graph is said to be $F_k$-free if it does not contain $F_k$ as a subgraph. Yu et al. in [arXiv:2404.03423] conjectured that for $k\geq2$ and $m$ sufficiently large, if $G$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Jing Gao , Xueliang Li

In 1986, Brualdi and Solheid firstly proposed the problem of determining the maximum spectral radius of graphs in the set $\mathcal{H}_{n,m}$ consisting of all simple connected graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, which is a very tough…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jie Zhang , Ya-Lei Jin , Hua Wang , Jin-Xuan Yang , Xiao-Dong Zhang
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