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This paper aims to address the problem: what is the maximum index among all $\mathcal{C}^-_r$-free unbalanced signed graphs, where $\mathcal{C}^-_r$ is the set of unbalanced cycle of length $r$. Let $\Gamma_1 = C_3^- \bullet K_{n-2}$ be a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zhuang Xiong , Yaoping Hou

A signed graph is a graph in which every edge carries a $+$ or a $-$ sign. In this paper, we determine the signed graphs with maximum spectral radius among all unbalanced signed graphs with fixed order that contain neither negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yiting Cai , Bo Zhou

The classical spectral Tur\'{a}n problem is to determine the maximum spectral radius of an $F$-free graph of order $n$. This paper extends this framework to signed graphs. Let $\mathcal{C}_r^-$ be the set of all unbalanced signed graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Dan Li , Mingsong Qin

In this paper, we focus on the index ( largest eigenvalue) of the adjacency matrix of connected signed graphs. We give some general results on the index when the corresponding signed graph is perturbed. As applications, we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Changxiang He , Yuying Li , Haiying Shan , Wenyan Wang

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $\sigma$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Yiting Cai , Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

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

The index of a signed graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For positive integers $n$ and $m\le n^2/4$, we determine the maximal index of complete signed graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ negative edges. This settles (the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Ebrahim Ghorbani , Arezoo Majidi

Let $q\left( G\right) $ be the $Q$-index (the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian) of $G$. Let $S_{n,k}$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a complete graph of order $k$ to each vertex of an independent set of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Xiying Yuan

Let $\Gamma=(K_n,H)$ be a signed complete graph whose negative edges induce a subgraph $H$. Let $A(\Gamma)$ be the adjacency matrix of the signed graph $\Gamma$. The largest eigenvalue of $A(\Gamma)$ is called the index of $\Gamma$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Ziyi Fang , Fan Chen , Xiying Yuan

We determine the maximum index and the signed graphs with the maximum index among all $\mathcal{K}_{2,t}^-$-free unbalanced signed graphs with fixed order for $t\geq 3$, as well as the second maximum index and the signed graphs with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Hongying Lin

As the counterpart of classical theorems on cycles of consecutive lengths due to Bondy and Bollob\'as in spectral graph theory, Nikiforov proposed the following open problem in 2008: What is the maximum $C$ such that for all positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Binlong Li , Bo Ning

This paper gives tight upper bounds on the largest eigenvalue q(G) of the signless Laplacian of graphs with no 4-cycle and no 5-cycle. If n is odd, let F_{n} be the friendship graph of order n; if n is even, let F_{n} be F_{n-1} with an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-08 Maria Aguieiras A. de Freitas , Vladimir Nikiforov , Laura Patuzzi

A signed graph $\Sigma=(G,\sigma)$ consists of an underlying graph $G=(V,E)$ with a sign function $\sigma:E\rightarrow\{-1,1\}$. Let $A(\Sigma)$ be the adjacency matrix of $\Sigma$ and $\lambda_1(\Sigma)$ denote the largest eigenvalue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Dan Li , Minghui Yan , Zhaolin Teng

For a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, let $ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which contains none of the members of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. A longstanding problem in extremal graph theory asks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

The classical spectral Tur\'{a}n problem is to determine the maximum spectral radius of an $\mathcal{F}$-free graph of order $n$. Zhai and Wang [Linear Algebra Appl, 437 (2012) 1641-1647] determined the maximum spectral radius of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Mingsong Qin , Dan Li

Let $\Gamma=(K_{n},H^-)$ be a signed complete graph whose negative edges induce a subgraph $H$. The index of $\Gamma$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper we study the index of $\Gamma$ when $H$ is a unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-08 N. Kafai , F. Heydari , N. Jafari Rad , M. Maghasedi

A signed graph $\Sigma = (G, \sigma)$ is a graph where the function $\sigma$ assigns either $1$ or $-1$ to each edge of the simple graph $G$. The adjacency matrix of $\Sigma$, denoted by $A(\Sigma)$, is defined canonically. In a recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-06 M. Rajesh Kannan , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

Let $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n$ be the eigenvalues of a signed graph $\Gamma$ of order $n$. The energy of $\Gamma$ is defined as $E(\Gamma)=\sum^{n}_{j=1}|x_j|.$ Let $\mathcal{P}_n^4$ be obtained by connecting a vertex of the negative circle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Dijian Wang , Yaoping Hou

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and let $q\left( G\right) $ be the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian of $G$. Let $S_{n,k}$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a complete graph of order $k$ to each vertex of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Vladimir Nikiforov , Xiying Yuan

Signed graphs have their edges labeled either as positive or negative. $\rho(M)$ denote the $M$-spectral radius of $\Sigma$, where $M=M(\Sigma)$ is a real symmetric graph matrix of $\Sigma$. Obviously,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Dan Li , Huiqiu Lin , Jixiang Meng
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