Spectral Tur\'an Problems for Expanded hypergraphs

Abstract

Given a graph $F$, the expansion $F^{(r)}$ of $F$ is defined as the $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $F$ by adding a set of $(r-2)$ distinct new vertices to each edge of $F$. In this paper, we investigate spectral stability results for hypergraphs and their applications.We first establish a spectral stability property: for any $r$-uniform hypergraph containing no copy of the expansion $F^{(r)}$ of a $(k+1)$-chromatic graph $F$, if its $p$-spectral is close to the extremal value, then the hypergraph is structurally close to $T_r(n, k)$, the complete $k$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices where sizes of any two parts differ by at most one.Using this spectral stability result, we determine the unique extremal hypergraph that maximizes the $p$-spectral radius among all $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraphs without $t$ vertex-disjoint copies of the expansion $K_{k+1}^{(r)}$ of $K_{k+1}$. We prove that this extremal hypergraph is isomorphic to $K_{t-1}^{r} \,\vee\, T_r(n-t+1, k)$, the join of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph $K_{t-1}^{r}$ and $T_r(n-t+1, k)$.As a corollary, we show that $K_{t-1}^{r} \,\vee\, T_r(n-t+1, k)$ is the unique extremal hypergraph for $tK_{k+1}^{(r)}$, which extends a result of Pikhurko [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 103 (2013) 220--225] for expanded complete graphs.