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Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a set of graphs. The planar Tur\'an number, $ex_{\mathcal{P}}(n,\mathcal{F})$, is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex planar graph which does not contain any member of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Tao Fang

A spectral characterization of the matching number (the size of a maximum matching) of a graph is given. More precisely, it is shown that the graphs G of order n whose matching number is k are precisely those graphs with the maximum skew…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Keivan Hassani Monfared , Sudipta Mallik

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

The $k$-independence number of a graph is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. A graph is called $k$-partially walk-regular if the number of closed walks of a given length $l\le k$, rooted at a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-26 M. A. Fiol

We give a signed generalization of Laurent's theorem that characterizes feasible positive semidefinite matrix completion problems in terms of metric polytopes. Based on this result, we give a characterization of the maximum rank completions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Shin-ichi Tanigawa

Let $\mathcal{G}(m,k)$ be the set of graphs with size $m$ and odd girth (the length of shortest odd cycle) $k$. In this paper, we determine the graph maximizing the spectral radius among $\mathcal{G}(m,k)$ when $m$ is odd. As byproducts, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Zhenzhen Lou , Lu Lu , Xueyi Huang

The purpose of this paper is to show that all maximally planar subgraphs of graphs in the Petersen Family have associated conflict graphs unbalanced. All but three strong conflict graphs arising from Petersen Family Graphs are unbalanced,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Joel Foisy , Justin Raimondi

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 positive integers $n>k>t$ let $\binom{[n]}{k}$ denote the collection of all $k$-subsets of the standard $n$-element set $[n]=\{1,\ldots,n\}$. Subsets of $\binom{[n]}{k}$ are called $k$-graphs. A $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}$ is called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Peter Frankl , Jian Wang

In this paper, we study some extremal problems of three kinds of spectral radii of $k$-uniform hypergraphs (the adjacency spectral radius, the signless Laplacian spectral radius and the incidence $Q$-spectral radius). We call a connected…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Honghai Li , Jiayu Shao , Liqun Qi

In this paper, we present two sharp upper bounds for the spectral radius of (bipartite) graphs with forbidden a star forest and characterize all extremal graphs. Moreover, the minimum least eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The $\sigma_{t}$-irregularity (or sigma total index) is a graph invariant which is defined as $\sigma_{t}(G)=\sum_{\{u,v\}\subseteq V(G)}(d(u)-d(v))^{2},$ where $d(z)$ denotes the degree of $z$. This irregularity measure was proposed by R\'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Slobodan Filipovski , Darko Dimitrov , Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski

Zykov's theorem shows that $r$-partite Tur\'{a}n graph uniquely has the maximum number of $K_t$ among all $n$-vertex $K_{r+1}$-free graphs for $2\le t\le r$. The clique tensor is a high-order extension of the adjacency matrix of a graph. Yu…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Changjiang Bu , Jueru Liu , Haotian Zeng

A sequence of vertices in a graph $G$ without isolated vertices is called a total dominating sequence if every vertex $v$ in the sequence has a neighbor which is adjacent to no vertex preceding $v$ in the sequence, and at the end every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Selim Bahadır , Didem Gözüpek , Oğuz Doğan

Let SPEX$_\mathcal{P}(n,F)$ and SPEX$_\mathcal{OP}(n,F)$ denote the sets of graphs with the maximum spectral radius over all $n$-vertex $F$-free planar and outerplanar graphs, respectively. Define $tP_l$ as a linear forest of $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Xilong Yin , Dan Li , Jixiang Meng

For a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, let $ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which contains none of the members of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. A longstanding problem in extremal graph theory asks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

Given a set of graphs $\mathcal{H}$, we say that a graph $G$ is \textit{$\mathcal{H}$-free} if it does not contain any member of $\mathcal{H}$ as a subgraph. Let $\text{ex}(n,\mathcal{H})$ (resp. $\text{ex}_{sp}(n,\mathcal{H})$) denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yifang Hao , Shuchao Li

We consider a problem proposed by Linial and Wilf to determine the structure of graphs that allows the maximum number of $q$-colorings among graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Let $T_r(n)$ denote the Tur\'{a}n graph - the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Melissa M Fuentes

A $k$-edge-coloured graph is colour-balanced if each colour appears equally often. Resolving a conjecture of Pardey and Rautenbach, we show that any colour-balanced $k$-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{2kt}$ contains a perfect matching that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Emma Hogan , Alex Scott , Dmitry Tsarev

In his survey "Beyond graph energy: Norms of graphs and matrices" (2016), Nikiforov proposed two problems concerning characterizing the graphs that attain equality in a lower bound and in a upper bound for the energy of a graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 N. E. Arévalo , R. O. Braga , V. M. Rodrigues