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A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labeled positive or negative. The sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges. Zaslavsky proved in 2012 that, up to switching isomorphism, there are six different signed Petersen…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Deepak Sehrawat , Bikash Bhattacharjya

We give a characterization of when a signed graph $G$ with a pair of distinguished edges $e_1, e_2 \in E(G)$ has the property that all cycles containing both $e_1$ and $e_2$ have the same sign. This answers a question of Zaslavsky.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Matt DeVos , Kathryn Nurse

The restricted edge-connectivity of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $\lambda^{\prime}(G)$, if it exists, is the minimum cardinality of a set of edges whose deletion makes $G$ disconnected and each component with at least 2 vertices. It…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Hazhe Ye , Yingzhi Tian

The presented paper studies the flow number $F(G,\sigma)$ of flow-admissible signed graphs $(G,\sigma)$ with two negative edges. We restrict our study to cubic graphs, because for each non-cubic signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ there is a set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Edita Rollová , Michael Schubert , Eckhard Steffen

The symmetric difference of two graphs $G_1,G_2$ on the same set of vertices $V$ is the graph on $V$ whose set of edges are all edges that belong to exactly one of the two graphs $G_1,G_2$. For a fixed graph $H$ call a collection ${\cal G}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Noga Alon

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ on $n$ vertices is called a \textit{parity signed graph} if there is a bijective mapping $f \colon V(G) \rightarrow \{1,\ldots,n\}$ such that $f(u)$ and $f(v)$ have same parity if $\sigma(uv)=1$, and opposite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Deepak Sehrawat , Anil Kumar , Sweta Ahlawat

Let $G$ be a (multi)graph of order $n$ and let $u,v$ be vertices of $G$. The maximum number of internally disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$ is denoted by $\kappa_G(u,v)$, and the maximum number of edge-disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$ is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Rocío M. Casablanca , Lucas Mol , Ortrud R. Oellermann

A connected graph $G$ with at least $2m+2n+2$ vertices is said to have property $E(m,n)$ if, for any two disjoint matchings $M$ and $N$ of size $m$ and $n$ respectively, $G$ has a perfect matching $F$ such that $M\subseteq F$ and $N\cap…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Qiuli Li , Heping Zhang

The line graph of a graph with signed edges carries vertex signs. A vertex-signed graph is consistent if every circle (cycle, circuit) has positive vertex-sign product. Acharya, Acharya, and Sinha recently characterized line-consistent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Daniel C. Slilaty , Thomas Zaslavsky

A signed graph $(G, \sigma)$ is a graph with a sign attached to each of its edges, where $G$ is the underlying graph of $(G, \sigma)$. Let $c(G)$, $\alpha(G)$ and $r(G, \sigma)$ be the cyclomatic number, the independence number and the rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Shengjie He , Rong-Xia Hao

A signed graph is a pair $(G,\sigma)$, where $G$ is a graph and $\sigma: E(G)\rightarrow \{-, +\}$, called signature, is an assignment of signs to the edges. Given a signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ with no negative loops, a balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Xiaolan Hu , Luis Kuffner , Jiaao Li , Reza Naserasr , Lujia Wang , Zhouningxin Wang , Xiaowei Yu

We present the first steps towards the determination of the signed graphs for which the adjacency matrix has all but at most two eigenvalues equal to 1 or -1. Here we deal with the disconnected, the bipartite and the complete signed graphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Willem H. Haemers , Hatice Topcu

Let $G$ be a graph. The maximum nullity of $G$, denoted by $M(G)$, is defined to be the largest possible nullity over all real symmetric matrices $A$ whose $a_{ij}\neq 0$ for $i\neq j$, whenever two vertices $u_i$ and $u_j$ of $G$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Saieed Akbari , Ebrahim Vatandoost , Yasser Golkhandy Pour

We consider graphs without loops or parallel edges in which every edge is assigned + or -. Such a signed graph is balanced if its vertex set can be partitioned into parts $V_1$ and $V_2$ such that all edges between vertices in the same part…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 R. Crowston , G. Gutin , M. Jones , G. Muciaccia

For a connected graph $G$, let $\mu(G)$ denote the distance spectral radius of $G$. A matching in a graph $G$ is a set of disjoint edges of $G$. The maximum size of a matching in $G$ is called the matching number of $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Zengzhao Xu , Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

Let $G^\sigma=(G,\sigma)$ be a connected signed graph and $A(G^\sigma)$ be its adjacency matrix. The positive inertia index of $G^\sigma$, denoted by $p^{+}(G^\sigma)$, is defined as the number of positive eigenvalues of $A(G^\sigma)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Suliman Khan , Sakander Hayat , Mohammed J. F. Alenazi

A signed graph has edge weights drawn from the set $\{+1,-1\}$, and is termed sign-balanced if it is equivalent to an unsigned graph under the operation of sign switching; otherwise it is called sign-unbalanced. A nut graph has a one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Nino Bašić , Patrick W. Fowler , Tomaž Pisanski , Irene Sciriha

A signed graph $G$ is a graph where each edge is assigned a + (positive edge) or a - (negative edge). The signed degree of a vertex $v$ in a signed graph, denoted by $sdeg(v)$, is the number of positive edges incident to $v$ subtracted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Alvaro Carbonero , Janelle Domantay , Karen Guthrie

For a given graph $G$, let $f:V(G)\to \{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ be a bijective mapping. For a given edge $uv \in E(G)$, $\sigma(uv)=+$, if $f(u)$ and $f(v)$ have the same parity and $\sigma(uv)=-$, if $f(u)$ and $f(v)$ have opposite parity. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Mohan Ramu , Joseph Varghese Kureethara

The set D of distinct signed degrees of the vertices in a signed graph G is called its signed degree set. In this paper, we prove that every non-empty set of positive (negative) integers is the signed degree set of some connected signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pirzada , T. A. Naikoo , F. A. Dar