Bhattacharya–Friedland–Peled conjecture on maximal spectral radius of bipartite graphs

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Let GG be a bipartite graph of size mm with bipartition sets SS and TT, satisfying 2⩽∣S∣⩽∣T∣2\leqslant |S|\leqslant |T| and 0<m<∣S∣∣T∣0<m<|S||T|. A graph achieves the maximum spectral radius when its spectral radius is maximal among bipartite graphs with these fixed bipartition sizes and size. Bhattacharya–Friedland–Peled conjecture. If GG achieves the maximum spectral radius, then GG is obtained from a complete bipartite graph by adding one vertex and a corresponding number of edges. The supplied text does not state whether this conjecture has been resolved.

References

Primary source

Shuchao Li, Sishu Zhao and Lantao Zou, “Spectral extrema of graphs with fixed size: forbidden a fan graph, friendship graph or theta graph”, arXiv:2409.15918 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2112.01124.

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