{"title":"Maximal Spectral Radius of Minimally \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 k\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 -(Edge)-Connected Graphs","authors":"Mingqing Zhai, Huiqiu Lin, Jinlong Shu","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23286","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Minimally <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-connected graphs are the main focus of both structural and extremal graph theory. Perhaps the most heavily investigated parameter of this graph family is the number <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> of vertices of degree <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. Mader proved a tight lower bound for <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, independent of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, and the order <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. In 1981, inspired by matroids, Oxley discovered that in many cases, a considerably better bound can be given by using the size <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>m</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> as a parameter. Along this line, Schmidt [Tight bounds for the vertices of degree <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> in minimally <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-connected graphs, J.","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"110 4","pages":"468-482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145273069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}