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We study graphs on $n$ vertices which have $2n-2$ edges and no proper induced subgraphs of minimum degree $3$. Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp conjectured that such graphs always have cycles of lengths $3,4,5,\dots, C(n)$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Lothar Narins , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

Let $G$ be a graph and $A$ be its adjacency matrix. A graph $G$ is invertible if its adjacency matrix $A$ is invertible and the inverse of $G$ is a weighted graph with adjacency matrix $A^{-1}$. A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Isaiah Osborne , Dong Ye

The nullity of a graph is the multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero in its adjacency spectrum. In this paper, we give a closed formula for the minimum and maximum nullity among trees with the same degree sequence, using the notion of matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Gonzalo Molina , Daniel A. Jaume

We study the inertia of distance matrices of weighted graphs. Our novel congruence-based proof of the inertia of weighted trees extends to a proof for the inertia of weighted unicyclic graphs whose cycle is a triangle. Partial results are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jeffrey Cheng , Ian Malcolm Johnson McInnis , Matthew Yee

The number of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues in the spectrum of the (edge)-weighted graph $G$ are called positive inertia index, negative inertia index and nullity of the weighted graph $G$, and denoted by $i_+(G)$, $i_-(G)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Shuchao Li , Feifei Song

Suppose that $\Gamma=(G, \sigma)$ is a connected signed graph with at least one cycle. The number of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of $\Gamma$ are called positive inertia index, negative inertia index and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Beiyan Liu , Fang Duan

A "signed graph" is a graph $\Gamma$ where the edges are assigned sign labels, either "$+$" or "$-$". The sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges. Let $\mathrm{SpecC}(\Gamma)$ denote the list of lengths of cycles in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Alex Schaefer , Thomas Zaslavsky

This paper studies the choosability of signed planar graphs. We prove that every signed planar graph is 5-choosable and that there is a signed planar graph which is not 4-choosable while the unsigned graph is 4-choosable. For each $k \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Ligang Jin , Yingli Kang , Eckhard Steffen

The set D of distinct signed degrees of the vertices in a signed graph G is called its signed degree set. In this paper, we prove that every non-empty set of positive (negative) integers is the signed degree set of some connected signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pirzada , T. A. Naikoo , F. A. Dar

A signed graph is one that features two types of edges: positive and negative. Balanced signed graphs are those in which all cycles contain an even number of positive edges. In the adjacency matrix of a signed graph, entries can be $0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

We define an equivalence relation on graphs with signed edges, such that the associated adjacency matrices of two equivalent graphs are congruent over $\mathbb{Z}$. We show that signed graphs whose eigenvalues are larger than $-2$ are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Lucas Fernandez Vilanova

Let $G_w$ be a weighted graph. The \textit{inertia} of $G_w$ is the triple $In(G_w)=\big(i_+(G_w),i_-(G_w), $ $ i_0(G_w)\big)$, where $i_+(G_w),i_-(G_w),i_0(G_w)$ are the number of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Guihai Yu , Xiao-Dong Zhang , Lihua Feng

A graph in a certain graph class is called minimizing if the least eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of the graph attains the minimum among all graphs in that class. Bell {\it et al.} have characterized the minimizing graphs in the class…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Yi Wang , Yi-Zheng Fan , Xiao-Xin Li , Fei-Fei Zhang

Cut vertices are often used as a measure of nodes' importance within a network. They are those nodes whose failure disconnects a graph. Let N(G) be the number of connected induced subgraphs of a graph $G$. In this work, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

We construct a countable infinite graph G that does not contain cycles of length four having the property that the sequence of graphs $G_n$ induced by the first $n$ vertices has minimum degree $\delta(G_n)> n^{\sqrt{2}-1+o(1)}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Javier Cilleruelo

A circulant graph is a simple graph whose adjacency matrix can be represented in the form of a circulant matrix, while a nut graph is considered to be a graph whose null space is spanned by a single full vector. In a previous study by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Ivan Damnjanović

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labeled positive or negative. The sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges. Zaslavsky proved in 2012 that, up to switching isomorphism, there are six different signed Petersen…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Deepak Sehrawat , Bikash Bhattacharjya

In this paper, we determine all connected net-regular strongly regular signed graphs with degree 5. There are five and two strongly regular signed graphs with net-degree 3 and 1, respectively.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Qian Yu , Yaoping Hou

An eigenvalue $\lambda$ of a signed graph $S$ of order $n$ is called a main eigenvalue if its eigenspace is not orthogonal to the all-ones vector $j$. Characterizing signed graphs with exactly $k$ $(1\le k\le n)$ distinct main eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Zenan Du , Fenjin Liu , Hechao Liu , Jifu Lin , Wenxu Yang

A graph is called integral if all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix consist entirely of integers. We prove that for a given nullity more than 1, there are only finitely many integral trees. It is also shown that integral trees with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-24 E. Ghorbani , A. Mohammadian , B. Tayfeh-Rezaie