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A graph is said to be symmetric if its automorphism group is transitive on its arcs. Guo et al. (Electronic J. Combin. 18, \#P233, 2011) and Pan et al. (Electronic J. Combin. 20, \#P36, 2013) determined all pentavalent symmetric graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Bo Ling , Ben Gong Lou , Ci Xuan Wu

A signed graph is a graph in which each edge has a positive or negative sign. In this article, first we characterize the distance compatibility in the case of a connected signed graph and discussed the distance compatibility criterion for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-21 T. V. Shijin , P. Soorya , K. Shahul Hameed , K. A. Germina

The stability number of a graph G, is the cardinality of a stable set of maximum size in G. If the stability number of G remains the same upon the addition of any edge, then G is called $\alpha ^{+}$-stable. G is a K\"{o}nig-Egervary graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

We introduce a notion of a girth-regular graph as a $k$-regular graph for which there exists a non-descending sequence $(a_1, a_2, \dots, a_k)$ (called the signature) giving, for every vertex $u$ of the graph, the number of girth cycles the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Primož Potočnik , Janoš Vidali

A graph is strongly perfect if every induced subgraph H has a stable set that meets every nonempty maximal clique of H. The characterization of strongly perfect graphs by a set of forbidden induced subgraphs is not known. Here we provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek , Paul Seymour

The \emph{resistance matrix} of a simple connected graph $G$ is denoted by $R$, and is defined by $R =(r_{ij})$, where $r_{ij}$ is the resistance distance between the vertices $i$ and $j$ of $G$. In this paper, we consider the resistance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Fouzul Atik , Ravindra B Bapat , M. Rajesh Kannan

We consider simple loopless finite undirected graphs. Such a graph is called strongly regular with parameter set (v,k,l,m), for short a srg(v,k,l,m), iff it has exactly v vertices, each of them has exactly k neighbours, and the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Thomas Jenrich

In this paper, we illustrate important aspects of the interplay between weighing matrices, $(v,k,\lambda)$-graphs with fixed-point free involutions, and signed graphs with an orthogonal adjacency matrix, which arises from thin divisible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Sergey Goryainov , Willem H. Haemers , Elena V. Konstantinova , Honghai Li

A graph $\Gamma$ is said to be stable if $\mathrm{Aut}(\Gamma\times K_2)\cong\mathrm{Aut}(\Gamma)\times \mathbb{Z}_{2}$ and unstable otherwise. If an unstable graph is connected, non-bipartite and any two of its distinct vertices have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Junyang Zhang

This paper introduces and studies the stability of the strong domination number of a graph, denoted $\operatorname{st}_{\gamma_{st}}(G)$, defined as the minimum number of vertices whose removal changes the strong domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Saeid Alikhani , Mazharuddin Mehraban , Hossein Shojaaldini Ardakani

An oriented graph $G^\sigma$ is a digraph without loops or multiple arcs whose underlying graph is $G$. Let $S\left(G^\sigma\right)$ be the skew-adjacency matrix of $G^\sigma$ and $\alpha(G)$ be the independence number of $G$. The rank of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 J. Huang , S. C. Li , H. Wang

An eigenvalue of a graph $G$ is called a main eigenvalue if it has an eigenvector the sum of whose entries is not equal to zero. It is well known that a graph $G$ has exactly two main eigenvalues if and only if there exists a unique pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Lin Chen , Qiongxiang Huang

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$. We conjecture that \[2n^+(G) \le n^-(G)(n^-(G) + 1),\] where $n^+(G)$ and $n^-(G)$ denote the number of positive and negative eigenvalues of $A(G)$, respectively. This conjecture generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Saieed Akbari , Clive Elphick , Hitesh Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Quanyu Tang

Let $G$ be a Berge graph that has no odd prism and no antihole of length at least six as an induced subgraph. We show that every such graph $G$ with no balanced skew-partition is either complete or has an even pair.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Yaqian Tang

An ISK4 in a graph G is an induced subgraph of G that is isomorphic to a subdivision of K4 (the complete graph on four vertices). A wheel is a graph that consists of a chordless cycle, together with a vertex that has at least three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Martin Milanič , Irena Penev , Nicolas Trotignon

A signed graph $\Gamma$ is said to be determined by its spectrum if every signed graph with the same spectrum as $\Gamma$ is switching isomorphic with $\Gamma$. Here it is proved that the path $P_n$, interpreted as a signed graph, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Saieed Akbari , Willem H. Haemers , Hamid Reza Maimani , Leila Parsaei Majd

In this paper, we characterize the class of {\em contraction perfect} graphs which are the graphs that remain perfect after the contraction of any edge set. We prove that a graph is contraction perfect if and only if it is perfect and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Alexandre Dupont-Bouillard , Pierre Fouilhoux , Roland Grappe , Mathieu Lacroix

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a simple, undirected and connected graph. A connected (total) dominating set $S \subseteq V$ is a secure connected (total) dominating set of $G$, if for each $ u \in V \setminus S$, there exists $v \in S$ such that $uv…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jakkepalli Pavan Kumar , P. Venkata Subba Reddy , S. Arumugam

Let $\Sigma=(\Gamma, \sigma)$ is a signed graph(or sigraph in short), where $\Gamma$ is a underlying graph of $\Sigma$ and $\sigma:E\longrightarrow \{+, -\}$ is a function. Consider $\Gamma=Cay(\mathbb{Z}_{p_{1}}\times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Mohammad A. Iranmanesh , Nasrin Moghaddami

For a graph $G$ and a non-zero real number $\alpha$, the graph invariant $S_{\alpha}(G)$ is the sum of the $\alpha^{th}$ power of the non-zero signless Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$. In this paper, we obtain the sharp bounds of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Lihua You , Jieshan Yang