A sharp fixed-size spectral bound for $kK_3$-free graphs
For a fixed integer $k\ge2$, we establish a sharp adjacency-spectral upper bound for sufficiently large $m$-edge $kK_3$-free graphs. We prove \[ \lambda(G)\le (k-1)+\sqrt{m-k(k-1)}. \] Moreover, equality holds precisely when $(2k-1)\mid m$ and, up to isolated vertices, $G$ is the join of $K_{2k-1}$ with an independent...