Title
Spectral extrema of graphs: Forbidden hexagon
Abstract
To determine the Turán numbers of even cycles is a central problem of extremal graph theory. Even for C6, the Turán number is still open. Till now, the best known upper bound is given by Füredi, Naor and Verstraëte [On the Turán number for the hexagon, Advances in Math.]. In 2010, Nikiforov posed a spectral version of extremal graph theory problem: what is the maximum spectral radius ρ of an H-free graph of order n? Let exsp(n,H)=max{ρ(G)||V(G)|=n,H⊈G}. In contrast to the unsolved problem of Turán number of C6, we obtain the exact value of exsp(n,C6) and characterize the unique extremal graph. The result also confirms Nikiforov’s conjecture [The spectral radius of graphs without paths and cycles of specified length, Linear Algebra Appl.] for k=2.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.disc.2020.112028
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Path,Cycle,Spectral radius,Adjacency matrix,Hexagon
Journal
343
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0012-365X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingqing Zhai1186.26
Huiqiu Lin23411.56