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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

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

Since 1997 there has been a steady stream of advances for the maximum disjoint paths problem. Achieving tractable results has usually required focusing on relaxations such as: (i) to allow some bounded edge congestion in solutions, (ii) to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Guyslain Naves , Bruce Shepherd , Henry Xia

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is linear if every two edges intersect in at most one vertex. The $r$-expansion $F^{r}$ of a graph $F$ is the $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $F$ by enlarging each edge of $F$ with a vertex subset of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chuan-Ming She , Yi-Zheng Fan , Liying Kang , Yaoping Hou

In the past decades, many scholars concerned which edge-extremal problems have spectral analogues? Recently, Wang, Kang and Xue showed an interesting result on $F$-free graphs [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 159 (2023) 20--41]. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zhenzhen Lou , Changxiang He

For two graphs $G$ and $F$, the extremal number of $F$ in $G$, denoted by {ex}$(G,F)$, is the maximum number of edges in a spanning subgraph of $G$ not containing $F$ as a subgraph. Determining {ex}$(K_n,F)$ for a given graph $F$ is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junxue Zhang

Given a graph family $\mathbb{H}$, let ${\rm SPEX}(n,\mathbb{H}_{\rm sub})$ denote the set of $n$-vertex $\mathbb{H}$-subdivision-free graphs with the maximum spectral radius. In this paper, we investigate the problem of graph subdivision…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Wanting Sun , Guanghui Wang , Pingchuan Yang

The extremal eigenvalues including maximum eigenvalues and the minimum eigenvalues about outerplanar graphs are investigated in this paper. Some structural characterizations about the (edge) maximal bipartite outerplanar graphs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Guanglong Yu

In network flow problems, there is a well-known one-to-one relationship between extreme points of the feasibility region and trees in the associated undirected graph. The same is true for the dual differential problem. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 René Brandenberg , Paul Stursberg

For a graph $G=(V,E)$ and $v_{i}\in V$, denote by $d_{v_{i}}$ (or $d_{i}$ for short) the degree of vertex $v_{i}$. The $p$-Sombor matrix $\textbf{S}_{\textbf{p}}(G)$ ($p\neq0$) of a graph $G$ is a square matrix, where the $(i,j)$-entry is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Ruiling Zheng , Tianlong Ma , Xian'an Jin

Extremal graph theory studies the maximum or minimum number of subgraphs isomorphic to a prescribed graph under given constraints. \textit{Localization} has recently emerged as a framework that refines such problems by assigning extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Rajat Adak , L. Sunil Chandran

A graph is called pseudo-outerplanar if each block has an embedding on the plane in such a way that the vertices lie on a fixed circle and the edges lie inside the disk of this circle with each of them crossing at most one another. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

For a set of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph is said to be $\mathcal{F}$-free if it does not contain any graph in $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. Let Ex$_{sp}(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the graphs with the maximum spectral radius among all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Yanni Zhai , Xiying Yuan

Given a positive integer $t$, let $P_{t,2}$ be the digraph consisting of $t$ directed paths of length 2 with the same initial and terminal vertices. In this paper, we study the maximum size of $P_{t+1,2}$-free digraphs of order $n$, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Zejun Huang , Zhenhua Lyu

An extremal graph for a given graph $H$ is a graph with maximum number of edges on fixed number of vertices without containing a copy of $H$. The $k$-th power of a path is a graph obtained from a path and joining all pair of vertices of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Long-Tu Yuan

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $\lambda_n(G)$ be the least eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix of $G$. In this paper, we give sharp bounds on the least eigenvalue of graphs without given pathes or cycles and determine the extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin , Shicai Gong

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

We study the classical NP-hard problems of finding maximum-size subsets from given sets of $k$ terminal pairs that can be routed via edge-disjoint paths (MaxEDP) or node-disjoint paths (MaxNDP) in a given graph. The approximability of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Krzysztof Fleszar , Matthias Mnich , Joachim Spoerhase

The $p$-spectral radius of a graph $G\ $of order $n$ is defined for any real number $p\geq1$ as \[ \lambda^{\left( p\right) }\left( G\right) =\max\left\{ 2\sum_{\{i,j\}\in E\left( G\right) \ }x_{i}x_{j}:x_{1},\ldots,x_{n}\in\mathbb{R}\text{…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Liying Kang , Vladimir Nikiforov

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