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A graph pair $(\Gamma, \Sigma)$ is called stable if $\aut(\Gamma)\times\aut(\Sigma)$ is isomorphic to $\aut(\Gamma\times\Sigma)$ and unstable otherwise, where $\Gamma\times\Sigma$ is the direct product of $\Gamma$ and $\Sigma$. A graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Xiaomeng Wang , Shou-Jun Xu , Sanming Zhou

In this short note, we introduce cospectral graphons, paralleling the notion of cospectral graphs. As in the graph case, we give three equivalent definitions: by equality of spectra, by equality of cycle densities, and by a unitary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Jan Hladký , Daniel Iľkovič , Jared León , Xichao Shu

Two graphs are said to be $Q$-cospectral if they share the same signless Laplacian spectrum. A simple graph is said to be determined by its signless Laplacian spectrum (abbreviated as DQS) if there exists no other non-isomorphic simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jiachang Ye , Jianguo Qian , Zoran Stanic

A graph $G$ is a prime distance graph (respectively, a 2-odd graph) if its vertices can be labeled with distinct integers such that for any two adjacent vertices, the difference of their labels is prime (either 2 or odd). We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Joshua D. Laison , Colin Starr , Andrea Walker

For a simple drawing $D$ of the complete graph $K_n$, two (plane) subdrawings are compatible if their union is plane. Let $\mathcal{T}_D$ be the set of all plane spanning trees on $D$ and $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{T}_D)$ be the compatibility…

For vertex and edge connectivity we construct infinitely many pairs of regular graphs with the same spectrum, but with different connectivity.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Willem H. Haemers

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

In this paper we completely characterize the graphs which have an edge weighted adjacency matrix belonging to the class of $n \times n$ involutions with spectrum equal to $\{ \lambda_1^{n-2}, \lambda_2^{2} \}$ for some $\lambda_1$ and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Karen Meagher , Irene Sciriha

It is well known that spectral Tur\'{a}n type problem is one of the most classical {problems} in graph theory. In this paper, we consider the spectral Tur\'{a}n type problem. Let $G$ be a graph and let $\mathcal{G}$ be a set of graphs, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Shuchao Li , Wanting Sun , Yuantian Yu

We determine all graphs for which the adjacency matrix has at most two eigenvalues (multiplicities included) not equal to $-2$, or $0$, and determine which of these graphs are determined by their adjacency spectrum.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-11 Sebastian M. Cioaba , Willem H. Haemers , Jason R. Vermette

Extending a classic result of Johnson and Newman, this paper provides a matrix characterization for two generalized cospectral graphs with a pair of generalized cospectral vertex-deleted subgraphs. As an application, we present a new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Wei Wang , Wenqiang Wen , Songlin Guo

In a coupled network cells can interact in several ways. There is a vast literature from the last twenty years that investigates this interacting dynamics under a graph theory formalism, namely as a graph endowed with an input-equivalence…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Tiago Amorim , Miriam Manoel

We give a construction of a family of (weighted) graphs that are pairwise cospectral with respect to the normalized Laplacian matrix, or equivalently probability transition matrix. This construction can be used to form pairs of cospectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Steve Butler , Kristin Heysse

We study the algebraic connectivity (or second Laplacian eigenvalue) of token graphs, also called symmetric powers of graphs. The $k$-token graph $F_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-subsets of vertices from $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-05 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol

Two vertices $a$ and $b$ in a graph $X$ are cospectral if the vertex-deleted subgraphs $X\setminus a$ and $X\setminus b$ have the same characteristic polynomial. In this paper we investigate a strengthening of this relation on vertices,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Chris Godsil , Jamie Smith

A graph $G$ is \emph{nonsingular (singular)} if its adjacency matrix $A(G)$ is nonsingular (singular). In this article, we consider the nonsingularity of block graphs, i.e., graphs in which every block is a clique. Extending the problem, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ranveer Singh , Cheng Zheng , Naomi Shaked-Monderer , Abraham Berman

We investigate spectral properties of quantum graphs in the form of a periodic chain of rings with a connecting link between each adjacent pair, assuming that wave functions at the vertices are matched through conditions manifestly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Marzieh Baradaran , Pavel Exner , Milos Tater

A vertex with neighbours of degrees $d_1 \geq ... \geq d_r$ has {\em vertex type} $(d_1, ..., d_r)$. A graph is {\em vertex-oblique} if each vertex has a distinct vertex-type. While no graph can have distinct degrees, Schreyer, Walther and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alastair Farrugia

We consider matrices of the form $qD+A$, with $D$ being the diagonal matrix of degrees, $A$ being the adjacency matrix, and $q$ a fixed value. Given a graph $H$ and $B\subseteq V(G)$, which we call a coalescent pair $(H,B)$, we derive a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Steve Butler , Elena D'Avanzo , Rachel Heikkinen , Joel Jeffries , Alyssa Kruczek , Harper Niergarth

The square of a graph G, denoted G^2, is the graph obtained from G by joining by an edge any two nonadjacent vertices which have a common neighbor. A graph G is said to have the F_k property if for any set of k distinct vertices {x_1, x_2,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Gek L. Chia , Jan Ekstein , Herbert Fleischner