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Let $G$ be a simple graph. In 1986, Herbert Wilf asked what kind of graphs have an eigenvector with entries formed only by $\pm 1$? In this paper, we answer this question for the adjacency, Laplacian and signless Laplacian matrix of a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Jorge Alencar , Leonardo de Lima

For a connected graph $G$, we denote by $L(G)$, $m_{G}(\lambda)$, $c(G)$ and $p(G)$ the line graph of $G$, the eigenvalue multiplicity of $\lambda$ in $G$, the cyclomatic number and the number of pendant vertices in $G$, respectively. In…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Wenhao Zhen , Dein Wong , Songnian Xu

The parameter $q(G)$ of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues over the family of symmetric matrices described by $G$. We show that all $G$ with $e(\overline{G}) = |E(\overline{G})| \leq \lfloor n/2 \rfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Wayne Barrett , Shaun Fallat , Veronika Furst , Shahla Nasserasr , Brendan Rooney , Michael Tait

Given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, its adjacency matrix and degree diagonal matrix are represented by $A(G)$ and $D(G)$, respectively. The $Q$-spectrum of $G$ consists of all the eigenvalues of its signless Laplacian matrix $Q(G)=A(G)+D(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Gui-Xian Tian , Jun-Xing Wu , Shu-Yu Cui , Hui-Lu Sun

The parameter $q(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues over the family of symmetric matrices described by $G$. It is shown that the minimum number of edges necessary for a connected graph $G$ to have $q(G)=2$ is…

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

For a simple connected graph $ G $ of order $ n $, the normalized Laplacian is a square matrix of order $ n $, defined as $\mathcal{L}(G)= D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}}L(G)D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}}$, where $ D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}} $ is the diagonal matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Bilal A. Rather , S. Pirzada , T. A. Chishti , Ahmad M. Alghamdi

For a graph $G$ with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and degree diagonal matrix $D(G)$, the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of $G$ is defined as \begin{equation*} A_{\alpha}(G) = \alpha D(G) + (1- \alpha) A(G), \text{ for any } \alpha \in [0,1].…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mainak Basunia , Pratima Panigrahi

Let $G$ be a graph with $p(G)$ pendant vertices and $q(G)$ quasi-pendant vertices. Denote by $m_{L(G)}(\lambda)$ the multiplicity of $\lambda$ as a Laplacian eigenvalue of $G$. Let $\overline{G}$ be the reduced graph of $G$, which can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Fenglei Tian , Dein Wong

Consider a semigraph $G=(V,\,E)$; in this paper, we study the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of $G$. We show that the Laplacian of $G$ is positive semi-definite, and $G$ is connected if and only if $\lambda_2 >0.$ Along the similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Pralhad M. Shinde

For a graph $G$, we associate a family of real symmetric matrices, $S(G)$, where for any $A\in S(G)$, the location of the nonzero off-diagonal entries of $A$ are governed by the adjacency structure of $G$. Let $q(G)$ be the minimum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Shaun Fallat , Seyed Ahmad Mojallal

The signless Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$ is given by $Q(G)=D(G)+A(G)$, where $D(G)$ is a diagonal matrix of vertex degrees and $A(G)$ is the adjacency matrix. The largest eigenvalue of $Q(G)$ is called the signless Laplacian spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Chang Liu , Yingui Pan , Jianping Li

Characterized are all simple undirected graphs $G$ such that any real symmetric matrix that has graph $G$ has no eigenvalues of multiplicity more than 2. All such graphs are partial 2-trees (and this follows from a result for rather general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles R. Johnson , Raphael Loewy , Paul Anthony Smith

A graph is said to be determined by its signless Laplacian spectrum (abbreviated as DQS) if no other non-isomorphic graph shares the same signless Laplacian spectrum. In this paper, we establish the following results: (1). Every graph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-24 Jiachang Ye , Zoran Stanić , Jianguo Qian

We review the properties of eigenvectors for the graph Laplacian matrix, aiming at predicting a specific eigenvalue/vector from the geometry of the graph. After considering classical graphs for which the spectrum is known, we focus on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-23 J. -G. Caputo , A. Knippel

Let $q(G)$ denote the $Q$-index of a graph $G$, which is the largest signless Laplacian eigenvalue of $G$. We prove best possible upper bounds of $q(G)$ and best possible lower bounds of $q(\overline{G})$ for a connected graph $G$ to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Huicai Jia , Hong-Jian Lai , Ruifang Liu , Ju Zhou

We present sharp inequalities relating the number of vertices, edges, and triangles of a graph to the smallest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix and the largest eigenvalue of its Laplacian.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

Let $q\left( G\right) $ be the $Q$-index (the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian) of $G$. Let $S_{n,k}$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a complete graph of order $k$ to each vertex of an independent set of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Xiying Yuan

In this paper, we show that the eigenvectors of the zero Laplacian and signless Lapacian eigenvalues of a $k$-uniform hypergraph are closely related to some configured components of that hypergraph. We show that the components of an…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Shenglong Hu , Liqun Qi

Given a graph $G$, we have the adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and degree diagonal matrix $D(G)$. The $Q$-spectrum is the all eigenvalues of $Q$-matrix $Q(G)=A(G)+D(G)$. A class of graphs is determined by their generalized $Q$-spectrum (DGQS for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Liwen Gao , Xuejun Guo