On ABC spectral radius of uniform hypergraphs

Abstract

Given a $k$-uniform hypergraph $G$ with vertex set $[n]$ and edge set $E(G)$, the ABC tensor $\mathcal{ABC}(G)$ of $G$ is the $k$-order $n$-dimensional tensor with \[ \mathcal{ABC}(G)_{i_1, \dots, i_k}= \begin{cases} \dfrac{1}{(k-1)!}\sqrt[k]{\dfrac{\sum_{i\in e}d_{i}-k}{\prod_{i\in e}d_{i}}} & \mbox{if $e\in E(G)$} 0 & \mbox{otherwise} \end{cases} \] for $i_j\in [n]$ with $j\in [k]$, where $d_i$ is the degree of vertex $i$ in $G$. The ABC spectral radius of a uniform hypergraph is the spectral radius of its ABC tensor. We give tight lower and upper bounds for the ABC spectra radius, and determine the maximum ABC spectral radii of uniform hypertrees, uniform non-hyperstar hypertrees and uniform non-power hypertrees of given size, as well as the maximum ABC spectral radii of unicyclic uniform hypergraphs and linear unicyclic uniform hypergraphs of given size, respectively. We also characterize those uniform hypergraphs for which the maxima for the ABC spectral radii are actually attained in all cases.