The high order spectral radius of graphs without long cycles or paths

Abstract

In 1959, Erd\H{o}s and Gallai established two classic theorems, which determine the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph with no cycles of length at least $k$, and in an $n$-vertex graph with no paths on $k$ vertices, respectively. Subsequently, generalized and spectral versions of the Erd\H{o}s-Gallai theorems have been investigated. A concept of a high order spectral radius for graphs was introduced in 2023, defined as the spectral radius of a tensor and termed the $t$-clique spectral radius $\rho_t(G)$. In this paper, we establish a high order spectral version of Erd\H{o}s-Gallai theorems by employing the $t$-clique spectral radius, i.e., we determine the extremal graphs that attain the maximum $t$-clique spectral radius in the $n$-vertex graphs with no cycles of length at least $k$ and in the $n$-vertex graphs with no paths on $k$ vertices, respectively.