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Given a graph $F$, let $SPEX_P(n,F)$ be the set of graphs with the maximum spectral radius among all $F$-free $n$-vertex planner graph. In 2017, Tait and Tobin proved that for sufficiently $n$, $K_2+P_{n-2}$ is the unique graph with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Weilun Xu , An Chang

In 1990, Cvetkovi\'{c} and Rowlinson [The largest eigenvalue of a graph: a survey, Linear Multilinear Algebra 28(1-2) (1990), 3--33] conjectured that among all outerplanar graphs on $n$ vertices, $K_1\vee P_{n-1}$ attains the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Huiqiu Lin , Bo Ning

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

In this paper, we study the maximum spectral radius of outerplanar $3$-uniform hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$, the shadow of $\mathcal{H}$ is a graph $G$ with $V(G)= V(\mathcal{H})$ and $E(G) = \{uv: uv \in h \textrm{ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-31 M. N. Ellingham , Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang

An $r$-pattern $P$ is defined as an ordered pair $P=([l],E)$, where $l$ is a positive integer and $E$ is a set of $r$-multisets with elements from $[l]$. An $r$-graph $H$ is said to be $P$-colorable if there is a homomorphism $\phi$:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jian Zheng , Honghai Li , Li Su

Let $C_{\ell}$ be the cycle of order ${\ell}$. The square of $C_{\ell}$, denoted by $C_{\ell}^2$, is obtained by joining all pairs of vertices with distance no more than two in $C_{\ell}$. A graph is called $F$-free if it does not contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Longfei Fang , Yanhua Zhao

In this paper we consider spectral extremal problems for hypergraphs. We give two general criteria under which such results may be deduced from `strong stability' forms of the corresponding (pure) extremal results. These results hold for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Peter Keevash , John Lenz , Dhruv Mubayi

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

Let ${\rm EX}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)$ denote the families of $n$-vertex $H$-free graphs with the maximum size and the maximum spectral radius, respectively. A graph $H$ is said to be spectral-consistent if ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)\subseteq {\rm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Longfei Fang , Sergey Goryainov , Denis Krotov , Huiqiu Lin , Mingqing Zhai

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

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the $h$-extra $r$-component connectivity of a graph $G$, denoted by $c\kappa_{r}^{h}$, is defined as the minimum number of vertices whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Daoxia Zhang , Dan Li , Wenxiu Ding

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

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

An extremal graph for a given graph $H$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $s,t$ be integers and let $H_{s,t}$ be a graph consisting of $s$ triangles and $t$ cycles of odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Xinmin Hou , Yu Qiu , Boyuan Liu

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

Let $F$ be a graph and $\SPEX (n, F)$ be the class of $n$-vertex graphs which attain the maximum spectral radius and contain no $F$ as a subgraph. Let $\EX (n, F)$ be the family of $n$-vertex graphs which contain maximum number of edges and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Lele Liu , Bo Ning

An extremal graph for a graph $H$ on $n$ vertices is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $T_{n,r}$ be the Tur\'{a}n graph, which is the complete $r$-partite graph on $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Xinmin Hou , Yu Qiu , Boyuan Liu

For a graph $G$, its spectral radius $\rho(G)$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a finite family of graphs with $\min_{F\in \mathcal{F}}\chi(F)=r+1\geq3$, where $\chi(F)$ is the chromatic number of $F$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Wenqian Zhang

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

We study the topic of "extremal" planar graphs, defining $\mathrm{ex_{_{\mathcal{P}}}}(n,H)$ to be the maximum number of edges possible in a planar graph on $n$ vertices that does not contain a given graph $H$ as a subgraph. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Chris Dowden