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The distance signless Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$ is define as $Q(G)=$Tr$(G)+D(G)$, where Tr$(G)$ and $D(G)$ are the diagonal matrix of vertex transmissions and the distance matrix of $G$, respectively. Denote by $E_G(v)$ the set of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Z. H. Zhang , L. G. Wang

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph, where $V=\{v_1, v_2, \cdots, v_n\}$. Let $d_i$ denote the degree of vertex $v_i$. The ABC matrix of $G$ is defined as $M(G)=(m_{ij})_{n \times n}$, where $m_{ij}=\sqrt{(d_i + d_j -2)/(d_i d_j)}$ if $v_i…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Wenshui Lin , Zhangyong Yan , Peifang Fu , Jia-Bao Liu

Let $m$ be a positive integer. Brualdi and Hoffman proposed the problem to determine the (connected) graphs with maximum spectral radius in a given graph class and they posed a conjecture for the class of graphs with given size $m$. After…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

For a $hypergraph$ $\mathcal{G}=(V, E)$ with a nonempty vertex set $V=V(\mathcal{G})$ and an edge set $E=E(\mathcal{G})$, its $adjacency$ $matrix$ $\mathcal {A}_{\mathcal{G}}=[(\mathcal {A}_{\mathcal{G}})_{ij}]$ is defined as $(\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Guanglong Yu

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph of size $m$. Let $A$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$ and let $\rho(G)$ be the spectral radius of $G$. A graph is said to be $H$-free if it does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Let $H(\ell,3)$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Amir Rehman , S. Pirzada

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and degree diagonal matrix $D (G)$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the matrix $A_\alpha(G) = \alpha D(G) + (1-\alpha)A(G)$ for any real $\alpha\in[0,1]$. The largest eigenvalue of $A_\alpha(G)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Xichan Liu , Ligong Wang

The generalized reciprocal distance matrix $RD_{\alpha}(G)$ was defined as $RD_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha RT(G)+(1-\alpha)RD(G),\quad 0\leq \alpha \leq 1.$ Let $\lambda_{1}(RD_{\alpha}(G))\geq \lambda_{2}(RD_{\alpha}(G))\geq \cdots \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Hechao Liu , Yufei Huang

The spectral radius of a graph is the largest modulus of an eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Let $\mathcal{C}_{n, e}$ be the set of all the connected simple graphs with $n$ vertices and $n - 1 + e$ edges. Here, we solve the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Ivan Damnjanović

Given a connected graph $G\ $of order $n$ and a nonnegative symmetric matrix $A=\left[ a_{i,j}\right] $ of order $n,$ define the function $F_{A}\left( G\right) $ as% \[ F_{A}\left( G\right) =\sum_{1\leq i<j\leq n}d_{G}\left( i,j\right)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Celso Marques da Silva , Vladimir Nikiforov

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

A connected nontrivial graph $G$ is {\it matching covered} if every edge of $G$ is contained in some perfect matching of $G$. A matching covered graph $G$ is {\it minimal} if $G-e$ is not matching covered for each edge $e$ of $G$. A graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Liwen Lian , Jinfeng Liu , Mengyuan Niu , Xiumei Wang

A fractional matching of $G$ is a function $f: E(G)\to [0,1]$ such that $\sum_{e\in E_G(v_i)}f(e)\le 1$ for any $v_i\in V(G)$, where $E_G(v_i)=\{e: e\in E(G) \ \textrm{and}\ e \ \textrm{is incident with} \ v_i\}$. Let $\alpha_f(G)$ denote…

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

Let $G = K_{n_1,n_2,\cdots,n_t}$ be a complete $t$-partite graph on $n=\sum_{i=1}^t n_i$ vertices. The distance between vertices $i$ and $j$ in $G$, denoted by $d_{ij}$ is defined to be the length of the shortest path between $i$ and $j$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Joyentanuj Das , Sumit Mohanty

For a graph $G$ and for two distinct vertices $u$ and $v$, let $\kappa(u,v)$ be the maximum number of vertex-disjoint paths joining $u$ and $v$ in $G$. The average connectivity matrix of an $n$-vertex connected graph $G$, written…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Linh Nguyen , Suil O

For a graph $G$, the spectral radius of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. A connected factor of $G$ is a connected spanning subgraph of $G$. For example, a spanning tree of $G$ is a 1-connected factor of $G$. Let $G$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Xinying Tang , Wenqian Zhang

Suppose that the vertex set of a connected graph $G$ is $V(G)=\{v_1,\cdots,v_n\}$. Then we denote by $Tr_{G}(v_i)$ the sum of distances between $v_i$ and all other vertices of $G$. Let $Tr(G)$ be the $n\times n$ diagonal matrix with its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Dandy Fan , Guoping Wang

The Harary index of a graph $G$ is recently introduced topological index, defined on the reverse distance matrix as $H(G)=\sum_{u,v \in V(G)}\frac{1}{d(u,v)}$, where $d(u,v)$ is the length of the shortest path between two distinct vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Aleksandar Ili\' c , Guihai Yu , Lihua Feng

The Randi\'{c} index $R(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as the sum of $(d_i d_j)^{-1/2}$ over all edges $v_i v_j$ of $G$, where $d_i$ is the degree of the vertex $v_i$ in $G$. The radius $r(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum graph eccentricity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Hanyuan Deng , Zikai Tang , Jie Zhang

The spectral radius {\rho}(G) of a digraph G is the maximum modulus of the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. We present bounds on {\rho}(G) that are often tighter and are applicable to a larger class of digraphs than previously reported…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Brian K. Butler , Paul H. Siegel

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