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The second largest eigenvalue of a graph is an important algebraic parameter which is related with the expansion, connectivity and randomness properties of a graph. Expanders are highly connected sparse graphs. In coding theory, Expander…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Machasri Manickam , Kalyani Desikan

From Alon and Boppana, and Serre, we know that for any given integer $k\geq 3$ and real number $\lambda<2\sqrt{k-1}$, there are finitely many $k$-regular graphs whose second largest eigenvalue is at most $\lambda$. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Hiroshi Nozaki , Jason R. Vermette

In spectral bisection, a Fielder vector is used for partitioning a graph into two connected subgraphs according to its sign pattern. In this article, we investigate graphs having Fiedler vectors with unbalanced sign patterns such that a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Sooyeong Kim , Steve Kirkland

The 'separation dimension' of a graph $G$ is the smallest natural number $k$ for which the vertices of $G$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^k$ such that any pair of disjoint edges in $G$ can be separated by a hyperplane normal to one of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Noga Alon , Manu Basavaraju , L. Sunil Chandran , Rogers Mathew , Deepak Rajendraprasad

In this paper we study the maximum value of the largest eigenvalue for simple bipartite graphs, where the number of edges is given and the number of vertices on each side of the bipartition is given. We state a conjectured solution, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-10 Amitava Bhattacharya , Shmuel Friedland , Uri N. Peled

The index of a signed graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For positive integers $n$ and $m\le n^2/4$, we determine the maximal index of complete signed graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ negative edges. This settles (the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Ebrahim Ghorbani , Arezoo Majidi

Let $G$ be an simple graph of order $n$ whose adjacency eigenvalues are $\lambda_1\ge\dots\ge\lambda_n$. The HL--index of $G$ is defined to be $R(G)= \max\{|\lambda_{h}|, |\lambda_{l}|\}$ with $h=\left\lfloor\frac{n+1}{2}\right\rfloor$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Yuzhenni Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

We characterize all connected graphs with second distance eigenvalue less than $-0.5858$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Rundan Xing , Bo Zhou

Let $ \Phi=(G, \varphi) $ be a connected complex unit gain graph ($ \mathbb{T} $-gain graph) on a simple graph $ G $ with $ n $ vertices and maximum vertex degree $ \Delta $. The associated adjacency matrix and degree matrix are denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Aniruddha Samanta , M. Rajesh Kannan

Over all graphs (or unicyclic graphs) of a given order, we characterise those graphs that minimise or maximise the number of connected induced subgraphs. For each of these classes, we find that the graphs that minimise the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

Let $\Gamma$ be a finite group acting transitively on $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, and let $G=\mathrm{Cay}(\Gamma,T)$ be a Cayley graph of $\Gamma$. The graph $G$ is called normal if $T$ is closed under conjugation. In this paper, we obtain an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Xueyi Huang , Qiongxiang Huang , Sebastian M. Cioabă

Bollob\'as and Nikiforov [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B. 97 (2007) 859--865] conjectured the following. If $G$ is a $K_{r+1}$-free graph on at least $r+1$ vertices and $m$ edges, then $\lambda^2_1(G)+\lambda^2_2(G)\leq \frac{r-1}{r}\cdot2m$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Huiqiu Lin , Bo Ning , Baoyindureng Wu

In this paper, we classify distance regular graphs such that all of its second largest local eigenvalues are at most one. Also we discuss the consequences for the smallest eigenvalue of a distance-regular graph. These extend a result by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Jack H. Koolen , Hyonju Yu

A graph of order $n>3$ is called {switching separable} if its modulo-2 sum with some complete bipartite graph on the same set of vertices is divided into two mutually independent subgraphs, each having at least two vertices. We prove the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-11 Denis Krotov

A graph is $k$-degenerate if every subgraph has minimum degree at most $k$. We provide lower bounds on the size of a maximum induced 2-degenerate subgraph in a triangle-free planar graph. We denote the size of a maximum induced 2-degenerate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Zdeněk Dvořák , Tom Kelly

The spectral radius of a graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Let $\mathcal{F}(\lambda)$ be the family of connected graphs of spectral radius $\le \lambda$. We show that $\mathcal{F}(\lambda)$ can be defined by a finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Zilin Jiang , Alexandr Polyanskii

Given a function $g=g(n)$ we let ${\mathcal E}^g$ be the class of all graphs $G$ such that if $G$ has order $n$ (that is, has $n$ vertices) then it is embeddable in some surface of Euler genus at most $g(n)$, and let ${\widetilde{\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Colin McDiarmid , Sophia Saller

Let $(n^+, n^0, n^-)$ denote the inertia of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. Nordhaus-Gaddum bounds are known for inertia, except for an upper bound for $n^-$. We conjecture that for any graph \[ n^-(G) + n^-(\bar{G}) \le 1.5(n - 1), \] and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Pawel Wocjan , Clive Elphick

For given $\Delta>0$ and $0<\lambda<3/\sqrt{2}$, we show that the maximum multiplicity that $\lambda$ can appear as the second largest eigenvalue of a connected graph with maximum degree at most $\Delta$ is $O_{\Delta,\lambda}(1)$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chuanyuan Ge , Shiping Liu

It was conjectured by Alon and proved by Friedman that a random $d$-regular graph has nearly the largest possible spectral gap, more precisely, the largest absolute value of the non-trivial eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix is at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Charles Bordenave