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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

Given a planar graph family $\mathcal{F}$, let ${\rm ex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n,\mathcal{F})$ and ${\rm spex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n,\mathcal{F})$ be the maximum size and maximum spectral radius over all $n$-vertex $\mathcal{F}$-free planar graphs,…

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

For a simple graph $F$, let $\mathrm{EX}(n, F)$ and $\mathrm{EX_{sp}}(n,F)$ be 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 graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Zhenyu Ni , Jing Wang , Liying Kang

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

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

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

Tait and Tobin [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 126 (2017) 137--161] determined the unique spectral extremal graph over all outerplanar graphs and the unique spectral extremal graph over all planar graphs when the number of vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Liangdong Fan , Liying Kang , Jiadong Wu

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

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

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

Let $\mathcal {F}$ be a given family of graphs. A graph $G$ is $\mathcal {F}$-free if it does not contain any member of $\mathcal {F}$ as a subgraph. Let $C_{l, l}$ be a graph obtained from $2C_l$ such that the two cycles share a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-17 HaoRan Zhang , WenHuan Wang

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 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

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

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 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 ${\rm EX}(n,H)$ 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

Let $\mathrm{ex}(n, F)$ and $\mathrm{spex}(n, F)$ be the maximum size and spectral radius among all $F$-free graphs with fixed order $n$, respectively. A fan is a graph $P_1\vee P_{s}$ (join of a vertex and a path of order $s$) for $s\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yiting Cai , Bo Zhou

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

The Tur\'{a}n number of a graph $H$, $ex(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in any graph of order $n$ which does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Lidick\'{y}, Liu and Palmer determined $ex(n, F_m)$ for $n$ sufficiently large and proved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Long-Tu Yuan , Xiao-Dong Zhang
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