Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: For $0 \leq α< 1$, the $α$-spectral radius of a graph $G$ is defined as the largest eigenvalue of $A_α(G)=αD(G)+(1-α)A(G)$, where $D(G)$ and $A(G)$ are the diagonal matrix of degrees and adjacency matrix of $G$, respectively. A graph is called color-critical if it contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. The celebrated Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem asserts that $ \mathrm{ex}(n,\mathcal{F})=\left(1-\frac{1}{χ(\mathcal{F})-1}+o(1)\right)\frac{n^2}{2},$ where $χ(\mathcal{F})$ is the chromatic number of $\mathcal{F}$. Nikiforov and Zheng et al. established the adjacency spectral and signless Laplacian spectral versions of this theorem, respectively. In this paper, we present the $α$-spectral version of this theorem, which unifies the aforementioned results. Furthermore, we characterize the $α$-spectral extremal graphs for color-critical graphs, thereby extending the existing results on adjacency spectral and signless Laplacian spectral extremal graphs for such graphs.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Wu, Jiadong, Lu, Yongchun, Kang, Liying
Institutions: Shanghai University, New York University Shanghai
Subfield: Geometry and Topology
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G478768364, G8911783418
OpenAlex ID: W4416966491
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