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A signed graph is a pair $(G,\Sigma)$, where $G=(V,E)$ is a graph (in which parallel edges are permitted, but loops are not) with $V=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and $\Sigma\subseteq E$. The edges in $\Sigma$ are called odd and the other edges of $E$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Marina Arav , Frank J. Hall , Zhongshan Li , Hein van der Holst

A signed graph is said to be sign-symmetric if it is switching isomorphic to its negation. Bipartite signed graphs are trivially sign-symmetric. We give new constructions of non-bipartite sign-symmetric signed graphs. Sign-symmetric signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Ebrahim Ghorbani , Willem H. Haemers , Hamid Reza Maimani , Leila Parsaei Majd

A balanced colouring of a graph is one in which every colour appears the same number of times. Given a fixed graph $H$ on $r$ vertices and a balanced $k$-colouring of the complete graph $K_{nrk}$, Hollom (2025) asked the following question:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Agnijo Banerjee , Lawrence Hollom

Mixed graphs can be seen as digraphs with arcs and edges (or digons, that is, two opposite arcs). In this paper, we consider the case where such graphs are bipartite and in which the undirected and directed degrees are one. The best graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-29 C. Dalfó , G. Erskine , G. Exoo , M. A. Fiol , J. Tuite

Let $\Gamma=(G, \sigma)$ be a signed graph of order $n$ with underlying graph $G$ and a sign function $\sigma: E(G)\rightarrow \{+, -\}$. Denoted by $i_+(\Gamma)$, $\theta(\Gamma)$ and $p(\Gamma)$ the positive inertia index, the cyclomatic…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jie Pu , Fang Duan

Spectral partitioning is a simple, nearly-linear time, algorithm to find sparse cuts, and the Cheeger inequalities provide a worst-case guarantee for the quality of the approximation found by the algorithm. Local graph partitioning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

In this paper, we define the Mycielskian of a signed graph and discuss the properties of balance and switching in the Mycielskian of a given signed graph. We provide a condition for ensuring the Mycielskian of a balanced signed graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Albin Mathew , Germina K. A.

Conductance-based graph clustering has been recognized as a fundamental operator in numerous graph analysis applications. Despite the significant success of conductance-based graph clustering, existing algorithms are either hard to obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Longlong Lin , Rong-Hua Li , Tao Jia

In this paper, we consider a relation between $k$-way expansion constant of a finite graph and the expansion constants of subgraphs in a $k$-partition of the graph. Using this relation, we show that a sequence of finite graphs which have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Mamoru Tanaka

Signed graphs have their edges labeled either as positive or negative. Here we introduce two types of signed distance matrix for signed graphs. We characterize balance in signed graphs using these matrices and we obtain explicit formulae…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Shahul Hameed K , Shijin T , Soorya P , Germina K A , Thomas Zaslavsky

The chromatic number $\chi((G,\sigma))$ of a signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is the smallest number $k$ for which there is a function $c : V(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_k$ such that $c(v) \not= \sigma(e) c(w)$ for every edge $e = vw$. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Yingli Kang , Eckhard Steffen

A signed graph is a pair $(G, \sigma)$, where $G$ is a graph and $\sigma: E(G) \to \{+, -\}$ is a signature which assigns to each edge of $G$ a sign. Various notions of coloring of signed graphs have been studied. In this paper, we extend…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Reza Naserasr , Zhouningxin Wang , Xuding Zhu

Nonlinear reformulations of the spectral clustering method have gained a lot of recent attention due to their increased numerical benefits and their solid mathematical background. We present a novel direct multiway spectral clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Dimosthenis Pasadakis , Christie Louis Alappat , Olaf Schenk , Gerhard Wellein

A graph $G$ is said to be equitably $c$-colorable if its vertices can be partitioned into $c$ independent sets that pairwise differ in size by at most one. Chen, Lih, and Wu conjectured that every connected graph $G$ with maximum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 James M. Shook

This paper proposes a new algorithm for simultaneous graph matching and clustering. For the first time in the literature, these two problems are solved jointly and synergetically without relying on any training data, which brings advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maximilian Krahn , Florian Bernard , Vladislav Golyanik

The frustration index of a signed graph is defined as the minimum number of negative edges among all switching-equivalent signatures. This can be regarded as a generalization of the classical \textsc{Max-Cut} problem in graphs, as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Sirui Chen , Jiaao Li , Zhouningxin Wang

Consistency is a key property of all statistical procedures analyzing randomly sampled data. Surprisingly, despite decades of work, little is known about consistency of most clustering algorithms. In this paper we investigate consistency of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Ulrike von Luxburg , Mikhail Belkin , Olivier Bousquet

The defective chromatic number of a graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that for some integer $d$, every graph in $\mathcal{G}$ is $k$-colourable such that each monochromatic component has maximum degree at most $d$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Marcin Briański , Robert Hickingbotham , David R. Wood

In a graph A, for each two arbitrary vertices g, h with d(g,h)=2,|MAg2h|=mAg2h is introduced the number of edges of A that are closer to g than to h. We say A is a 2-edge distance-balanced graph if we have mAg2h=mAh2g. In this article, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Zohreh Aliannejadi , Mehdi alaeiyan , Alireza Gilani , Jafar Asadpour

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd