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Maximum spread of $K_r$-minor free graphs

Combinatorics 2024-11-07 v1

Abstract

The spread of a graph is the difference between the largest and smallest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we investigate spread problems for graphs with excluded clique-minors. We show that for sufficiently large nn, the nn-vertex KrK_r-minor free graph with maximum spread is the join of a clique and an independent set, with r2r-2 and nr+2n-r+2 vertices, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2411.04014,
  title  = {Maximum spread of $K_r$-minor free graphs},
  author = {Wenyan Wang and Lele Liu and Yi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04014},
  year   = {2024}
}
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