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No mixed graph with the nullity $\eta(\widetilde{G})=|V(G)|-2m(G)+2c(G)-1$

Combinatorics 2023-04-14 v1

Abstract

A mixed graph G~\widetilde{G} is obtained from a simple undirected graph GG, the underlying graph of G~\widetilde{G}, by orienting some edges of GG. Let c(G)=E(G)V(G)+ω(G)c(G)=|E(G)|-|V(G)|+\omega(G) be the cyclomatic number of GG with ω(G)\omega(G) the number of connected components of GG, m(G)m(G) be the matching number of GG, and η(G~)\eta(\widetilde{G}) be the nullity of G~\widetilde{G}. Chen et al. (2018)\cite{LSC} and Tian et al. (2018)\cite{TFL} proved independently that V(G)2m(G)2c(G)η(G~)V(G)2m(G)+2c(G)|V(G)|-2m(G)-2c(G) \leq \eta(\widetilde{G}) \leq |V(G)|-2m(G)+2c(G), respectively, and they characterized the mixed graphs with nullity attaining the upper bound and the lower bound. In this paper, we prove that there is no mixed graph with nullity η(G~)=V(G)2m(G)+2c(G)1\eta(\widetilde{G})=|V(G)|-2m(G)+2c(G)-1. Moreover, for fixed c(G)c(G), there are infinitely many connected mixed graphs with nullity V(G)2m(G)+2c(G)s|V(G)|-2m(G)+2c(G)-s (0s3c(G),s1)( 0 \leq s \leq 3c(G), s\neq1 ) is proved.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06239,
  title  = {No mixed graph with the nullity $\eta(\widetilde{G})=|V(G)|-2m(G)+2c(G)-1$},
  author = {Shengjie He and Rong-Xia Hao and Hong-Jian Lai and Qiaozhi Geng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06239},
  year   = {2023}
}