The signless Laplacian spectral radius of graphs without disjoint cliques

Abstract

A graph $G$ is $(t+1)K_{r+1}$-free if it contains no $t+1$ pairwise vertex-disjoint copies of $K_{r+1}$. Moon [Canad. J. Math. 20 (1968) 95-102] and Simonovits [Theory of Graphs (Proc. Colloq., Tihany, 1966)] independently determined that, for sufficiently large $n$, $K_{t}\vee T_{r}(n-t)$ is the unique $n$-vertex $(t+1)K_{r+1}$-free graph with the maximum number of edges. In 2023, Ni, Wang and Kang [Electron. J. Combin. 30 (2023) \#P1.20] showed that the graph $K_{t}\vee T_{r}(n-t)$ is also the unique adjacency spectral extremal graph over all $n$-vertex $(t+1)K_{r+1}$-free graphs for sufficiently large $n$. In this paper, for $r\geq 3$ and $t\geq 0$, we prove that $K_{t}\vee T_r(n-t)$ is the unique graph attaining the maximum signless Laplacian spectral radius among all $(t+1)K_{r+1}$-free graphs of sufficiently large order $n$.