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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 $kK_{r+1}$ is the union of $k$ disjoint copies of $(r+1)$-clique. Moon [Canad. J. Math. 20 (1968) 95--102] and Simonovits [Theory of Graphs (Proc. colloq., Tihany, 1996)] independently showed that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Zhenyu Ni , Jing Wang , Liying Kang

Tur\'{a}n type extremal problem is how to maximize the number of edges over all graphs which do not contain fixed forbidden subgraphs. Similarly, spectral Tur\'{a}n type extremal problem is how to maximize (signless Laplacian) spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Let $m$ be a positive integer. Brualdi and Hoffman proposed the problem to determine the (connected) graphs with maximum spectral radius in a given graph class and they posed a conjecture for the class of graphs with given size $m$. After…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

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

A 1-planar graph refers to a graph that can be drawn on the plane such that each edge has at most one crossing. In this paper, focusing on the spectral Tur\'{a}n-type problems of $1$-planar graphs, we determine completely the unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Weilun Xu , An Chang

Denote by $tC_\ell$ the disjoint union of $t$ cycles of length $\ell$. Let $ex(n,F)$ and $spex(n,F)$ be the maximum size and spectral radius over all $n$-vertex $F$-free graphs, respectively. In this paper, we shall pay attention to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Longfei Fang , Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin

Let $\mathcal{F}$ denote a set of graphs. A graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal{F}$-free if it does not contain any element of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. The Tur\'an number is the maximum possible number of edges in an $\mathcal{F}$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Shuchao Li , Wanting Sun , Wei Wei

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ let $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ be the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraph $H$ which contains no copy of $F$. Determining or estimating $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ is a classical and central problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Christian Reiher

For a set of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, let $\ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ and $\spex(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the maximum number of edges and the maximum spectral radius of an $n$-vertex $\mathcal{F}$-free graph, respectively. Nikiforov ({\em LAA}, 2007)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Hongyu Wang , Xinmin Hou , Yue Ma

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the \emph{$h$-extra $r$-component connectivity} $\kappa^h_r(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined to be the minimum size of a subset of vertices whose removal disconnects $G$, and there are at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Yu Wang , Dan Li , Huiqiu Lin

The Tur\'an type extremal problem asks to maximize the number of edges over all graphs which do not contain fixed subgraphs. Similarly, the spectral Tur\'an type extremal problem asks to maximize spectral radius of all graphs which do not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The binding number $b(G)$ of a graph, introduced by Woodall [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, 1973], is a central topic of both structural and extremal graph theory. It is closely related to fundamental combinatorial and structural properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Ruifang Liu , Hongyu Chen , Ao Fan

The spread of a graph $G$ is the difference between the largest and smallest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$. Gotshall, O'Brien and Tait conjectured that for sufficiently large $n$, the $n$-vertex outerplanar graph with maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Zelong Li , William Linz , Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang

Shiu, Chan and Chang [On the spectral radius of graphs with connectivity at most $k$, J. Math. Chem., 46 (2009), 340-346] studied the spectral radius of graphs of order $n$ with $\kappa(G) \leq k$ and showed that among those graphs, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Hongliang Lu , Yuqing Lin

Let $\lambda^{*}$ be the maximum spectral radius of connected irregular graphs on $n$ vertices with maximum degree $\Delta$. Liu, Shen and Wang (2007) conjectured that $\lim_{n\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Jie Xue , Ruifang Liu

Brualdi and Hoffman (1985) proposed the problem of determining the maximal spectral radius of graphs with given size. In this paper, we consider the Brualdi-Hoffman type problem of graphs with given matching number. The maximal $Q$-spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Mingqing Zhai , Jie Xue , Ruifang Liu

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

For a cycle $C_k$ on $k$ vertices, its $p$-th power, denoted $C_k^p$, is the graph obtained by adding edges between all pairs of vertices at distance at most $p$ in $C_k$. Let $\ex(n, F)$ and $\spex(n, F)$ denote the maximum possible number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Xinhui Duan , Lu Lu

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