Unbalanced signed bipartite graphs containing no negative $C_4$ with maximum spectral radius

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Hauptverfasser: Cai, Yiting, Lin, Hongying, Zhou, Bo
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author Cai, Yiting
Lin, Hongying
Zhou, Bo
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Lin, Hongying
Zhou, Bo
contents A signed graph $(G,σ)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $σ$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral radius of a signed graph is the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix, in which for vertices $u,v$, the $(u,v)$-entry is $0$, $-1$, or $1$ depending on whether $uv$ represents no edge, a negative edge, or a positive edge, respectively. Recently, Conde, Dratman and Grippo [Discrete Math. 349 (2026) 114942] proved that there is only one unbalanced signed bipartite graph with maximum spectral radius, up to switching isomorphism. In this paper, we establish a spectral Turán type results for signed bipartite graphs. More precisely, we determine the unique graphs containing no negative cycles of length four with maximum spectral radius, up to switching isomorphism, among unbalanced signed bipartite graphs with fixed bipartite sizes and order, respectively.
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Cai, Yiting
Lin, Hongying
Zhou, Bo
Combinatorics
A signed graph $(G,σ)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $σ$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral radius of a signed graph is the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix, in which for vertices $u,v$, the $(u,v)$-entry is $0$, $-1$, or $1$ depending on whether $uv$ represents no edge, a negative edge, or a positive edge, respectively. Recently, Conde, Dratman and Grippo [Discrete Math. 349 (2026) 114942] proved that there is only one unbalanced signed bipartite graph with maximum spectral radius, up to switching isomorphism. In this paper, we establish a spectral Turán type results for signed bipartite graphs. More precisely, we determine the unique graphs containing no negative cycles of length four with maximum spectral radius, up to switching isomorphism, among unbalanced signed bipartite graphs with fixed bipartite sizes and order, respectively.
title Unbalanced signed bipartite graphs containing no negative $C_4$ with maximum spectral radius
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14673