The Spectral Radius of Graphs on Surfaces
The Spectral Radius of Graphs on Surfaces
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DOI:
10.1006/jctb.1999.1926
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2000
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M. Ellingham;X. Zha
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作者:
M. Ellingham;X. Zha
This paper provides new upper bounds on the spectral radius ? (largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix) of graphs embeddable on a given compact surface. Our method is to bound the maximum rowsum in a polynomial of the adjacency matrix, using simple consequences of Euler's formula. Let ? denote the Euler genus (the number of crosscaps plus twice the number of handles) of a fixed surface ?. Then (i) for n?3, every n-vertex graph embeddable on ? has ??2+2n+8??6, and (ii) a 4-connected graph with a spherical or 4-representative embedding on ? has ??1+2n+2??3. Result (i) is not sharp, as Guiduli and Hayes have recently proved that the maximum value of ? is 3/2+2n+o(1) as n?∞ for graphs embeddable on a fixed surface. However, (i) is the only known bound that is computable, valid for all n?3, and asymptotic to 2n like the actual maximum value of ?. Result (ii) is sharp for the sphere or plane (?=0), with equality holding if and only if the graph is a “double wheel” 2K1+Cn?2 (+denotes join). For other surfaces we show that (ii) is within O(1/n1/2) of sharpness. We also show that a recent bound on ? by Hong can be deduced by our method.