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We find a positive $e_I$-expansion for the chromatic symmetric function of KPKP graphs, which are graphs obtained by connecting a vertex in a complete graph with a vertex in the maximal clique of a lollipop graph by a path. This generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Davion Q. B. Tang , David G. L. Wang

Spectral characterization of graphs is an important topic in spectral graph theory, which has received a lot of attention from researchers in recent years. It is generally very hard to show a given graph to be determined by its spectrum.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Lihong Qiu , Wei Wang , Wei Wang , Hao Zhang

The Grover walk is one of the most well-studied quantum walks on graphs. In this paper, we investigate its periodicity to reveal the relationship between the quantum walk and the underlying graph, focusing particularly on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Yusuke Yoshie

The number of walks from one vertex to another in a finite graph can be counted by the adjacency matrix. In this paper, we prove two theorems that connect the graph Laplacian with two types of walks in a graph. By defining two types of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Chengzheng Yu

We call an order $O$ in a quadratic field $K$ odd (resp. even) if its discriminant is an odd (resp. even) integer. We call an elliptic curve $E$ over the field $C$ of complex numbers with CM odd (resp. even) if its endomorphism ring…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Yuri G. Zarhin

A graph is odd if all of its vertices have odd degrees. In particular, an odd spanning tree in a connected graph is a spanning tree in which all vertices have odd degrees. In this paper we establish a unified technique to enumerate odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shaohan Xu , Kexiang Xu

We study the class of simple graphs $\mathcal{G}^*$ for which every pair of distinct odd cycles intersect in at most one edge. We give a structural characterization of the graphs in $\mathcal{G}^*$ and prove that every $G \in \mathcal{G}^*$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Jessica McDonald , Gregory J. Puleo

We show that a graph has an orientation under which every circuit of even length is clockwise odd if and only if the graph contains no subgraph which is, after the contraction of at most one circuit of odd length, an even subdivision of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilse Fischer , C. H. C. Little

Closeness is an important measure of network centrality. In this article we will calculate the closeness of graphs, created by using operations on graphs. We will prove a formula for the closeness of shadow graphs. We will calculate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Chavdar Dangalchev

The graph obtained from the integer grid Z x Z by the removal of all horizontal edges that do not belong to the x-axis is called a comb. In a random walk on a graph, whenever a walker is at a vertex v, in the next step it will visit one of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-26 János Pach , Gábor Tardos

We give a sharp spectral condition for the existence of odd cycles in a graph of given order. We also prove a related stability result.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Vladimir Nikiforov

The Rado graph, also known as the random graph $G(\infty, p)$, is a classical limit object for finite graphs. We study natural ball walks as a way of understanding the geometry of this graph. For the walk started at $i$, we show that order…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sourav Chatterjee , Persi Diaconis , Laurent Miclo

A well-known theorem of Blind and Mani says that every simple polytope is uniquely determined by its graph. Kalai gave a very short and elegant proof of this result using the concept of acyclic orientations. As it turns out, Kalai's proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Joswig

An odd coloring of a graph is a proper coloring such that every non-isolated vertex has a color that appears at an odd number of its neighbors. This notion was introduced by Petr\v{s}evski and \v{S}krekovski in 2022. In this paper, we focus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Masaki Kashima , Kenta Ozeki

A graph $G$ is said to be \emph{determined by its spectrum} if any graph having the same spectrum as $G$ is isomorphic to $G$. Let $K_n \setminus P_{\ell}$ be the graph obtained from $K_n$ by removing edges of $P_\ell$, where $P_\ell$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Lihuan Mao , Sebastian M. Cioabă , Wei Wang

We present a deterministic linear-time algorithm for finding an odd cycle through two specified vertices in an undirected graph. This is shown in a generalized form as follows: Let $\Gamma$ be any group in which every element is of order at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Takumi Kano , Yutaro Yamaguchi

The continuous-time quantum walk is a particle evolving by Schr\"odinger's equation in discrete space. Encoding the space as a graph of vertices and edges, the Hamiltonian is proportional to the discrete Laplacian. In some physical systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Thomas G. Wong , Joshua Lockhart

We investigate whether it is typical for a sparse graph to be uniquely characterized by its adjacency spectrum up to isomorphism. Our first result shows that the giant component of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph is cospectral when the average…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Nils Van de Berg , Alexander Van Werde

Sufficient conditions for a simple graph to be characterized up to isomorphism given its spectrum and the spectrum of its complement graph are known due to Wang and Xu. This note establishes a related sufficient condition in the presence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Alexander Van Werde

A hole in a graph G is an induced cycle of length at least four; an antihole is a hole in the complement of G. In 2005, Chudnovsky, Cornuejols, Liu, Seymour and Vuskovic showed that it is possible to test in polynomial time whether a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl