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A graph $G$ is said to be \textit{determined by its generalized spectrum} (DGS for short) if for any graph $H$, $H$ and $G$ are cospectral with cospectral complements implies that $H$ is isomorphic to $G$. In \cite{WX,WX1}, Wang and Xu gave…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Wei Wang

We define the following parameter of connected graphs. For a given graph $G$ we place one agent in each vertex of $G$. Every pair of agents sharing a common edge is declared to be acquainted. In each round we choose some matching of $G$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Itai Benjamini , Igor Shinkar , Gilad Tsur

The spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Woo and Neumaier discovered that a connected graph $G$ with $\rho(G)\leq 3/2{\sqrt{2}}$ is either a dagger, an open quipu, or a closed quipu.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Jingfen Lan , Linyuan Lu

Let $\alpha\in[0,1)$, and let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ with $n\geq f(\alpha)$, where $f(\alpha)=6$ for $\alpha\in[0,\frac{2}{3}]$ and $f(\alpha)=\frac{4}{1-\alpha}$ for $\alpha\in(\frac{2}{3},1)$. A graph $G$ is said to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Sizhong Zhou , Yuli Zhang , Tao Zhang , Hongxia Liu

The edge-connectivity of a graph is the minimum number of edges whose deletion disconnects the graph. Let $\Delta(G)$ the maximum degree of a graph $G$ and let $\rho(G)$ be the spectral radius of $G$. In this article we present a lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Cristian Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

Let $G$ be a graph embedded in a surface and let $\mathcal F$ be a set of even faces of $G$ (faces bounded by a cycle of even length). The resonance graph of $G$ with respect to $\mathcal F$, denoted by $R(G;\mathcal F)$, is a graph such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Niko Tratnik , Dong Ye

An edge-weighted graph $G$, possibly with loops, is said to be antiferromagnetic if it has nonnegative weights and at most one positive eigenvalue, counting multiplicities. The number of graph homomorphisms from a graph $H$ to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Joonkyung Lee , Jaeseong Oh , Jaehyeon Seo

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called monochromatic if any two edges on the path have the same color. For $k\geq 2$, an edge-colored graph $G$ is said to be monochromatic $k$-edge-connected if every two distinct vertices of $G$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Ping Li , Xueliang Li

Let A(G) be the adjacency tensor (hypermatrix) of uniform hypergraph G. The maximum modulus of the eigenvalues of A(G) is called the spectral radius of G. In this paper, the conjecture of Fan et al. in [5] related to compare the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Liying Kang , Lele Liu , Liqun Qi , Xiying Yuan

A graph is said to be orthogonalisable if the set of real symmetric matrices whose off-diagonal pattern is prescribed by its edges contains an orthogonal matrix. We determine some necessary and some sufficient conditions on the sizes of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Rupert H. Levene , Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

A matching $M$ in a graph $G$ is acyclic if the subgraph of $G$ induced by the set of vertices that are incident to an edge in $M$ is a forest. We prove that every graph with $n$ vertices, maximum degree at most $\Delta$, and no isolated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Julien Baste , Maximilian Fürst , Dieter Rautenbach

A subgraph $H$ of a multigraph $G$ is called strongly spanning, if any vertex of $G$ is not isolated in $H$, while it is called maximum $k$-edge-colorable, if $H$ is proper $k$-edge-colorable and has the largest size. We introduce a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Vahan V. Mkrtchyan , Gagik N. Vardanyan

A path in a vertex-colored graph is called \emph{vertex-rainbow} if its internal vertices have pairwise distinct colors. A graph $G$ is \emph{rainbow vertex-connected} if for any two distinct vertices of $G$, there is a vertex-rainbow path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Wenjing Li , Xueliang Li , Jingshu Zhang

For a set of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph is said to be $\mathcal{F}$-free if it does not contain any graph in $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. Let Ex$_{sp}(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the graphs with the maximum spectral radius among all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Yanni Zhai , Xiying Yuan

Two $k$-uniform hypergraphs are said to be cospectral (E-cospectral), if their adjacency tensors have the same characteristic polynomial (E-characteristic polynomial). A $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is said to be determined by its spectrum,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Changjiang Bu , Jiang Zhou , Yimin Wei

For $\alpha \in [0,1]$, the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of a graph $G$ is defined by $A_{\alpha}(G) = \alpha D(G) + (1- \alpha) A(G)$, where $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ denote the adjacency matrix and the diagonal degree matrix of $G$, respectively. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Mainak Basunia , Pratima Panigrahi

Let $\mathcal{G}_{n, \beta^*}$ $(\mathcal{G}^*_{n,\beta^*})$ be the set of all (connected) graphs of order $n$ with fractional matching number $\beta^*$. In this paper, the graphs with maximal spectral radius in $\mathcal{G}_{n,\beta^*}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Qian-Qian Chen , Ji-Ming Guo

A dissociation set of a graph is a set of vertices which induces a subgraph with maximum degree less than or equal to one. The dissociation number of a graph is the maximum cardinality of its dissociation sets. In this paper, we study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Zejun Huang , Jiahui Liu , Xinwei Zhang

Let $X$ and $Y$ be two graphs of order $n$. The friends-and-strangers graph $\textup{FS}(X,Y)$ of $X$ and $Y$ is a graph whose vertex set consists of all bijections $\sigma: V(X)\rightarrow V(Y)$, in which two bijections $\sigma$ and $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Xinghui Zhao , Lihua You , Jifu Lin , Xiaoxue Zhang

We investigate connections between the symmetries (automorphisms) of a graph and its spectral properties. Whenever a graph has a symmetry, i.e. a nontrivial automorphism $\phi$, it is possible to use $\phi$ to decompose any matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Wayne Barrett , Amanda Francis , Ben Webb