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Let G be a simple graph on n vertices with vertex set V(G). The energy of G, denoted by, $\mathcal{E}(G)$ is the sum of all absolute values of the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix $A(G)$. It is the first eigenvalue-based topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 B. R. Rakshith , Kinkar Chandra Das , B. J. Manjunatha

The energy of a vertex $v_i$ in a graph $G$ is defined as $\mathcal{E}_G(v_i) = |A|_{ii}$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of $G$, $A^*$ denotes the conjugate transpose of $A$, and $|A| = (AA^*)^{1/2}$. The total energy of the graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 H. M. Nagesh , U. Vijaya Chandra Kumar , N. Narahari

For a graph $G$, its energy $\mathcal{E}(G)$ is the sum of absolute values of the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix, the matching number $\mu(G)$ is the number of edges in a maximum matching of $G$, while $\Delta$ is the maximum vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Đorđe Stevanović , Ivan Damnjanović , Dragan Stevanović

For a graph $G$, let $S(G)$ be the Seidel matrix of $G$ and $\te_1(G),...,\te_n(G)$ be the eigenvalues of $S(G)$. The Seidel energy of $G$ is defined as $|\te_1(G)|+...+|\te_n(G)|$. Willem Haemers conjectured that the Seidel energy of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Ebrahim Ghorbani

Let $\mu(G)$ denote the spectral radius of a graph $G$. We partly confirm a conjecture due to Nikiforov, which is a spectral radius analogue of the well-known Erd\H{o}s-S\'os Conjecture that any tree of order $t$ is contained in a graph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Xiangxiang Liu , Hajo Broersma , Ligong Wang

The number of spanning trees in a graph $G$ is the total number of distinct spanning subgraphs of $G$ that are trees. In this paper we characterize the unique graph with a prescribed vertex (resp. edge) connectivity, minimum degree and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Shaohan Xu , Kexiang Xu , Ivan Damnjanović

The graph $G_\sigma$ is obtained from graph $G$ by attaching self loops on $\sigma$ vertices. The energy $ E(G_\sigma)$ of the graph $G_\sigma$ with order $n$ and eigenvalues $\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\dots,\lambda_n$ is defined as $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Kalpesh M. Popat , Kunal R. Shingala

The eccentricity matrix $\varepsilon(G)$ of a graph $G$ is obtained from the distance matrix by retaining the eccentricities (the largest distance) in each row and each column. In this paper, we give a characterization of the star graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Iswar Mahato , R. Gurusamy , M. Rajesh Kannan , S. Arockiaraj

For a simple graph $G$, the energy $\mathcal{E}(G)$ is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix $A(G)$. Let $n, m$, respectively, be the number of vertices and edges of $G$. One well-known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-23 Xueliang Li , Yiyang Li , Yongtang Shi

Let $G$ be a graph with the vertex set $ \lbrace v_1,\ldots,v_n \rbrace$. The Seidel matrix of $G$ is an $n\times n$ matrix whose diagonal entries are zero, $ij$-th entry is $-1$ if $ v_{i} $ and $ v_{j} $ are adjacent and otherwise is $ 1…

Gutman and Wagner proposed the concept of the matching energy (ME) and pointed out that the chemical applications of ME go back to the 1970s. Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$ and $\mu_1,\mu_2,\ldots,\mu_n$ be the roots of its matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Lin Chen , Yongtang Shi

Let $\G$ be an oriented graph of order $n$ and $\a_1,\a_2,..., \a_n$ denote all the eigenvalues of the skew-adjacency matrix of $\G.$ The skew energy $\displaystyle{\cal E}_s(\G)= \sum_{i=1}^{n} |\a_i|.$ In this paper, the oriented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Hou Yaoping , Shen Xiaoling , Zhang Chongyan

Let G be a simple graph of order $n$ and $\mu_1,\mu_2,\ldots,\mu_n$ the roots of its matching polynomial. The matching energy of $G$ is defined as the sum $\sum_{i=1}^n|\mu_i|$. Let $K_{n-1,1}^k$ be the graph obtained from $K_1\cup K_{n-1}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Shengjin Ji , Hongping Ma

We give a new inequality between the energy of a graph and a weighted sum over the edges of the graph. Using this inequality we prove that $\mathcal{E}(G)\geq 2R(H)$, where $ \mathcal{E}(G)$ is the energy of a graph $G$ and $R(H)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Gerardo Arizmendi , Diego Huerta

Nikiforov (LAA, 2010) conjectured that for given integer $k$, any graph $G$ of sufficiently large order $n$ with spectral radius $\mu(G)\geq \mu(S_{n,k})$ contains all trees of order $2k+2$, unless $G=S_{n,k}$, where $S_{n,k}=K_k\vee…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Xinmin Hou , Boyuan Liu , Shicheng Wang , Jun Gao , Chenhui Lv

Let $G$ be a simple undirected $n$-vertex graph with the characteristic polynomial of its Laplacian matrix $L(G)$, $\det (\lambda I - L (G))=\sum_{k = 0}^n (-1)^k c_k \lambda^{n - k}$. Laplacian--like energy of a graph is newly proposed…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-03-25 Aleksandar Ilic , Djordje Krtinic , Milovan Ilic

Motivated by the linear time algorithm that locates the eigenvalues of a cograph G [10], we investigate the multiplicity of eigenvalue for \lambda \neq -1,0. For cographs with balanced cotrees we determine explicitly the highest value for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Luiz Emilio Allem , Fernando Tura

The energy of a graph is the sum of the absolute values of its adjacency eigenvalues. For integral circulant graphs $\ICG(n,\mathcal{D})$ of order $n=p^2q^3$, where $p$ and $q$ are distinct odd primes, we prove that the adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Diego Roldan

The Wiener index of a graph, which is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices, has been well studied. Recently, Sills and Wang in 2012 proposed two conjectures on the maximal Wiener index of trees with a given degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Let $ G $ be a simple graph with the vertex cover number $ \tau $. The energy $ \mathcal{E}(G) $ of $ G $ is the sum of the absolute values of all the adjacency eigenvalues of $ G $. In this article, we establish $ \mathcal{E}(G)\geq 2\tau…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Aniruddha Samanta