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Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $\lambda_n(G)$ be the least eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix of $G$. In this paper, we give sharp bounds on the least eigenvalue of graphs without given pathes or cycles and determine the extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin , Shicai Gong

We pursue the study of edge-irregulators of graphs, which were recently introduced in [Fioravantes et al. Parametrised Distance to Local Irregularity. IPEC, 2024]. That is, we are interested in the parameter Ie(G), which, for a given graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Julien Bensmail , Noémie Catherinot , Foivos Fioravantes , Clara Marcille , Nacim Oijid

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 eccentricity matrix of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $\mathcal{E}(G)$, is obtained from the distance matrix of $G$ by keeping the largest nonzero entries in each row and each column and leaving zeros in the remaining ones. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Iswar Mahato , M. Rajesh Kannan

The distance spectral radius of a connected hypergraph is the largest eigenvalue of the distance matrix of the hypergraph. A pendant path of length l with l greater than or equal to 1 in a hypergraph G at vertex v sub l plus 1 is a path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yanna Wang , Xuli Qi

Write $\rho\left( G\right) $ for the spectral radius of a graph $G$ and $S_{n,r}$ for the join $K_{r}\vee\overline{K}_{n-r}.$ Let $n>r\geq2$ and $G$ be a $K_{r+1}$-saturated graph of order $n.$ Recently Kim, Kim, Kostochka, and O determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-11 V. Nikiforov

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. The $k$-token graph (or symmetric $k$-th power) of $G$, denoted by $F_k(G)$ has as vertices the ${n\choose k}$ $k$-subsets of vertices from $G$, and two vertices are adjacent when their symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 M. A. Reyes , C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol

For a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, recall that the distance signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ is defined to be $\mathcal{Q}(G)=Tr(G)+\mathcal{D}(G)$, where $\mathcal{D}(G)$ is the distance matrix, $Tr(G)=diag(D_1, D_2, \ldots, D_n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Lihua You , Liyong Ren , Guanglong Yu

Consider a group $\mathbb{G}$ and construct its power graph, whose vertex set consists of the elements of $\mathbb{G}$. Two distinct vertices (elements) are adjacent in the graph if and only if one element can be expressed as an integral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Priti Prasanna Mondal , Basit Auyoob Mir , Fouzul Atik

The signless Laplacian spectral radius of a graph $G$, denoted by $q(G)$, is the largest eigenvalue of its signless Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we investigate extremal signless Laplacian spectral radius for graphs without short cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Wenwen Chen , Bing Wang , Mingqing Zhai

In this paper, we determine the graphs which have the minimal spectral radius among all the connected graphs of order $n$ and the independence number $\lceil\frac{n}{2}\rceil-1.$

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Jinwon Choi , Jooyeon Park

The minimum number of distinct eigenvalues, taken over all real symmetric matrices compatible with a given graph $G$, is denoted by $q(G)$. Using other parameters related to $G$, bounds for $q(G)$ are proven and then applied to deduce…

Research on the relationship of the (signless Laplacian) spectral radius of a graph with its structure properties is an important research project in spectral graph theory. Denote by $\rho(G)$ and $q(G)$ the spectral radius and the signless…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Zhiwen Wang , Ji-Ming Guo

The spectral extrema problems on forbidding minors have aroused wide attention. Very recently, Zhai and Lin [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 157 (2022) 184--215] determined the extremal graph with maximum adjacency spectral radius among all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Yanting Zhang , Zhenzhen Lou

A fractional matching of a graph $G$ is a function $f:E(G)\rightarrow [0, 1]$ such that for any $v\in V(G)$, $\sum_{e\in E_{G}(v)}f(e)\leq1$, where $E_{G}(v)=\{e\in E(G): e~ \mbox{is incident with} ~v~\mbox{in}~G\}$.The fractional matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Jing Lou , Ruifang Liu , Guoyan Ao

Let $G_S$ be the graph obtained by attaching a self-loop at every vertex in $S \subseteq V(G)$ of a simple graph $G$ of order $n.$ In this paper, we explore several new results related to the line graph $L(G_S)$ of $G_S.$ Particularly, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Saieed Akbari , Irena M. Jovanović , Johnny Lim

Let $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of a graph $G$ with $\lambda_{1}(G)$, $\lambda_{2}(G)$, ..., $\lambda_{n}(G)$ being its eigenvalues in non-increasing order. Call the number $S_k(G):=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\lambda_{i}^k(G) (k=0,1,...,n-1)$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-13 Shuchao Li , Huihui Zhang

Let $G$ be a graph attaining the maximum spectral radius among all connected nonregular graphs of order $n$ with maximum degree $\Delta$. Let $\lambda_1(G)$ be the spectral radius of $G$. A nice conjecture due to Liu, Shen and Wang [On the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Lele Liu

Given a graph $G,$ a subset of vertices is called a maximum dissociation set of $G$ if it induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1, and the subset has maximum cardinality. The cardinality of a maximum dissociation set is called the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Zihan Zhou , Shuchao Li

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the \emph{$h$-extra $r$-component connectivity} $\kappa^h_r(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined to be the minimum size of a subset of vertices whose removal disconnects $G$, and there are at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Yu Wang , Dan Li , Huiqiu Lin