{"paper":{"title":"Spectral extremal results for triangle-free graphs with chromatic number at least four","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"math.CO","authors_text":"Huiqiu Lin, Yinfen Zhu","submitted_at":"2026-05-14T09:40:29Z","abstract_excerpt":"A graph is called $F$-free if it does not contain a copy of $F$. Let $G(r,s)$ denote a $K_{r+1}$-free graph of order $n$ with chromatic number at least $s$ that maximizes the spectral radius. Nikiforov [Linear Algebra Appl., 2007] proved the spectral Tur\\'{a}n theorem, which implies that $G(r,s)$ is the $r$-partite Tur\\'{a}n graph $T_{n,r}$ for $s\\leq r$. Lin, Ning, and Wu [Combin. Probab. Comput., 2021] characterized the unique spectral extremal graph $G(2,3)$. This result was later extended by Li and Peng [SIAM J. Discrete Math., 2023] to all $s=r+1\\geq 3$. In this paper, we push the charact"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2605.14627","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}