Sandbox:DavidKohler/Alon try 1/Tangle

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A tangle is a graph which has a large influence on the second largest eigenvalue of any large enough graph containing it.

Definition

A tangle is a graph G whose largest irreducible eigenvalue, λIrred(G), is at least d−1. If the largest eigenvalue is precisely d−1 we say that the graph G is a critical tangle and if it greater, we call it a hypercritical tangle.