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Recently, Ali et al. posed several open problems concerning extremal graphs with respect to the ABS index. These problems involve characterizing graphs that attain the maximum ABS index within specific graph classes, including: connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Swathi Shetty , B. R. Rakshith , Sayinath Udupa N.

We study the extremal problem that relates the spectral radius $\lambda (G)$ of an $F$-free graph $G$ with its number of edges. Firstly, we prove that for any graph $F$ with chromatic number $\chi (F)=r+1\ge 3$, if $G$ is an $F$-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

We survey recent advances in the theory of graph and hypergraph decompositions, with a focus on extremal results involving minimum degree conditions. We also collect a number of intriguing open problems, and formulate new ones.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

The $f$ adjacency matrix is a type of edge-weighted adjacency matrix, whose weight of an edge $ij$ is $f(d_i,d_j)$, where $f$ is a real symmetric function and $d_i,d_j$ are the degrees of vertex $i$ and vertex $j$. The $f$-spectral radius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Chenghao Shen , Haiying Shan

We study two extremal problems about subgraphs excluding a family $\F$ of graphs. i) Among all graphs with $m$ edges, what is the smallest size $f(m,\F)$ of a largest $\F$--free subgraph? ii) Among all graphs with minimum degree $\delta$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Florent Foucaud , Michael Krivelevich , Guillem Perarnau

We systematically study a natural problem in extremal graph theory, to minimize the number of edges in a graph with a fixed number of vertices, subject to a certain local condition: each vertex must be in a copy of a fixed graph $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

In this paper, we investigate odd graceful graph, odd strongly harmonious graph, bipartite graph and their relationship. We proved following results: (1) if G is odd strongly harmonious graph, then G is odd graceful graph ;(2) if G is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Xiuying Wang , Ying Zhoua , Haihong Wanga , Chunfeng Liu

It is a well-known fact that a graph of diameter $d$ has at least $d+1$ eigenvalues. Let us call a graph \emph{$d$-extremal} if it has diameter $d$ and exactly $d+1$ eigenvalues. Such graphs have been intensively studied by various authors.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Felix Goldberg , Steve Kirkland , Anu Varghese , Ambat Vijayakumar

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

A graph is \emph{$(\mathcal{I}, \mathcal{F})$-partitionable} if its vertex set can be partitioned into two parts such that one part $\mathcal{I}$ is an independent set, and the other $\mathcal{F}$ induces a forest. A graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Zhengjiao Liu , Tao Wang , Xiaojing Yang

We analyze graphs attaining the extreme values of various spectral indices in the class of all simple connected graphs, as well as in the class of graphs which are not complete multipartite graphs. We also present results on density of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Sona Pavlikova , Daniel Sevcovic , Jozef Siran

The classic extremal problem is that of computing the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph. In the case where $F=K_{r+1}$, the extremal number was determined by Tur\'an. Later results, known as supersaturation theorems, proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Jonathan Cutler , JD Nir , A. J. Radcliffe

The degree-based entropy of a graph is defined as the Shannon entropy based on the information functional that associates the vertices of the graph with the corresponding degrees. In this paper, we study extremal problems of finding the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Yanni Dong , Maximilien Gadouleau , Pengfei Wan , Shenggui Zhang

A strong edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to edges such that every color class induces a matching. We here focus on bipartite graphs whose one part is of maximum degree at most $3$ and the other part is of maximum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Julien Bensmail , Aurélie Lagoutte , Petru Valicov

We consider the single-conflict coloring problem, a graph coloring problem in which each edge of a graph receives a forbidden ordered color pair. The task is to find a vertex coloring such that no two adjacent vertices receive a pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Peter Bradshaw , Tomáš Masařík

The spectral theory of quantum graphs is related via an exact trace formula with the spectrum of the lengths of periodic orbits (cycles) on the graphs. The latter is a degenerate spectrum, and understanding its structure (i.e.,finding out…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 U. Gavish , U. Smilansky

For a graph $F$, let ${\rm EX}(n,F)$ be the set of $F$-free graphs of order $n$ with the maximum number of edges. The graph $F$ is called vertex-critical, if the deletion of its some vertex induces a graph with smaller chromatic number. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Wenqian Zhang

Given a graph family $\mathcal{H}$ with $\min_{H\in \mathcal{H}}\chi(H)=r+1\geq 3$. Let ${\rm ex}(n,\mathcal{H})$ and ${\rm spex}(n,\mathcal{H})$ be the maximum number of edges and the maximum spectral radius of the adjacency matrix over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Longfei Fang , Michael Tait , Mingqing Zhai

A \emph{locally irregular graph} is a graph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. We say that a graph $G$ can be decomposed into $k$ locally irregular subgraphs if its edge set may be partitioned into $k$ subsets each of which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Jakub Przybyło

Given $D$ and $\gamma>0$, whenever $c>0$ is sufficiently small and $n$ sufficiently large, if $\mathcal{G}$ is a family of $D$-degenerate graphs of individual orders at most $n$, maximum degrees at most $\tfrac{cn}{\log n}$, and total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Jan Hladký , Diana Piguet