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The famous Gallai's Conjecture states that any connected graph with n vertices has a path decomposition containing at most (n+1)/2 paths. In this note, we explore graphs generated from removing edges from complete graphs. We first provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Hua Wang , Andrew Zhang

It is known that if $n$ vertices can be removed from a connected graph $\Gamma$ so that no subgraphs isomorphic to the graph $K$ remain, then no more than $|V(K)|\cdot n$ vertices can be removed, forming a set invariant with respect to all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 M. S. Terekhov

We consider the number of vertices that must be removed from a graph G in order that the remaining subgraph has no component with more than k vertices. Our principal observation is that, if G is a sparse random graph or a random regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-13 Svante Janson , Andrew Thomason

Menger's Edge Theorem asserts that there exist $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint paths between two vertices in an undirected graph if and only if a deletion of any $k-1$ or less edges does not disconnect these two vertices. Alternatively, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Avraham Goldstein

We examine the adjacency spectrum of trees with diameter three, also referred to as double stars. Using $P_2(a,b)$ to denote a double star with $ a$ and $b$ leaves at its respective endpoints, we discuss graphs which are cospectral to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Emily Barranca , Michael D. Barrus

In the past decades, graphs that are determined by their spectrum have received more attention, since they have been applied to several fields, such as randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization problems and machine learning. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Ali Zeydi Abdian , Afshin Behmaram , Gholam Hossein Fath-Tabar

We determine all graphs whose adjacency matrix has at most two eigenvalues (multiplicities included) different from $\pm 1$ and decide which of these graphs are determined by their spectrum. This includes the so-called friendship graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-25 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Willem H. Haemers , Jason Vermette , Wiseley Wong

It is known that complete multipartite graphs are determined by their distance spectrum but not by their adjacency spectrum. The Seidel spectrum of a graph $G$ on more than one vertex does not determine the graph, since any graph obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Abraham Berman , Shaked-Monderer , Ranveer Singh , Xiao-Dong Zhang

It is known that complete graphs and complete multipartite graphs have modularity zero. We show that the least number of edges we may delete from the complete graph $K_n$ to obtain a graph with non-zero modularity is $\lfloor n/2\rfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Colin McDiarmid , Fiona Skerman

Graphs can be associated with a matrix according to some rule and we can find the spectrum of a graph with respect to that matrix. Two graphs are cospectral if they have the same spectrum. Constructions of cospectral graphs help us…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Kate Lorenzen

We investigate whether it is typical for a sparse graph to be uniquely characterized by its adjacency spectrum up to isomorphism. Our first result shows that the giant component of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph is cospectral when the average…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Nils Van de Berg , Alexander Van Werde

We consider complete graphs with edge weights and/or node weights taking values in some set. In the first part of this paper, we show that a large number of graphs are completely determined, up to isomorphism, by the distribution of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

It is known that, if removing some $n$ edges from a graph $\Gamma$ destroys all subgraphs isomorphic to a given finite graph $K$, then all subgraphs isomorphic to $K$ can be destroyed by removing at most $|E(K)|\cdot n$ edges, which form a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Anton A. Klyachko , Mikhail S. Terekhov

Complement-reducible graphs (or cographs) are the graphs formed from the single-vertex graph by the operations of complement and disjoint union. By combining the Johnson-Newman theorem on generalized cospectrality with the standard tools in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Wei Wang , Ximei Huang

This paper establishes an upper bound on the number of generalized cospectral mates of simple graphs, where the generalized spectrum consists of the spectrum of a graph and its complement. Moving beyond the classical problem of identifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Muhammad Raza , Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas

We study the following problem - How many arbitrary edges can be removed from a complete geometric graph with 2n vertices such that the resulting graph always contains a perfect non-crossing matching? We first address the case where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Aviv Sheyn , Ran J. Tessler

The cycles are the only $2$-connected graphs in which any two nonadjacent vertices form a vertex cut. We generalize this fact by proving that for every integer $k\ge 3$ there exists a unique graph $G$ satisfying the following conditions:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan , Leilei Zhang

We prove that if the number of edges does not exceed 7 then the asymptotics of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem uniquely determine the shape of the graph.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 O. Boyko , D. Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi , V. Pivovarchik

The article presents weighted adjacency spectrum of complete multipartite graphs, characterize its families with three distinct eigenvalues and identifies integral matrices. Also, we observe that for almost all weighted matrices, the energy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Bilal Ahmad Rather , Hilal Ahmad Ganie

A connected graph $G$ with at least two vertices is matching covered if each of its edges lies in a perfect matching. A matching covered graph is minimal if the removal of any edge results in a graph that is no longer matching covered. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xiaoling He , Fuliang Lu , Heping Zhang