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A matching in a graph $G$ is a set of independent edges in $G$. A perfect matching in a graph $G$ is a matching which saturates all the vertices of $G$. A fractional perfect matching in a graph $G$ is a function $h:E(G)\rightarrow [0,1]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Sizhong Zhou

The Randi{\' c} index of a graph $G$, written $R(G)$, is the sum of $\frac 1{\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}}$ over all edges $uv$ in $E(G)$. %let $R(G)=\sum_{uv \in E(G)} \frac 1{\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}}$, which is called the Randi{\' c} index of it. Let $d$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Suil O , Yongtang Shi

We give an upper bound on the maximal eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a connected graph in terms of its maximum degree, diameter and order. This bound is best possible up to a constant factor and improves prevoius results of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the $h$-extra $r$-component connectivity of a graph $G$, denoted by $c\kappa_{r}^{h}$, is defined as the minimum number of vertices whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Daoxia Zhang , Dan Li , Wenxiu Ding

For a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, recall that the distance signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ is defined to be $\mathcal{Q}(G)=Tr(G)+\mathcal{D}(G)$, where $\mathcal{D}(G)$ is the distance matrix, $Tr(G)=diag(D_1, D_2, \ldots, D_n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Lihua You , Liyong Ren , Guanglong Yu

In this paper, we study a question of Hong from 1993 related to the minimum spectral radii of the adjacency matrices of connected graphs of given order and size. Hong asked if it is true that among all connected graphs of given number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Vishal Gupta , Celso Marques

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. For any real $\alpha\in [0,1]$, Nikiforov [Merging the $A$- and $Q$-spectral theories, Appl. Anal. Discrete Math. 11 (2017)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Huiqiu Lin , Xing Huang , Jie Xue

The spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix $A(G)$. For a fixed integer $e\ge 1$, let $G^{min}_{n,n-e}$ be a graph with minimal spectral radius among all connected graphs on $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Jingfen Lan , Linyuan Lu , Lingsheng Shi

In 1986, Brualdi and Solheid firstly proposed the problem of determining the maximum spectral radius of graphs in the set $\mathcal{H}_{n,m}$ consisting of all simple connected graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, which is a very tough…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jie Zhang , Ya-Lei Jin , Hua Wang , Jin-Xuan Yang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The spectral radius of a graph is the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix. A threshold graph is a simple graph whose vertices can be ordered as $v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n$, so that for each $2 \le i \le n$, vertex $v_i$ is either adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Péter Csikvári , Ivan Damnjanović , Dragan Stevanović , Stephan Wagner

Let $D(G)$ be the distance matrix of a simple connected graph $G$. The Hadamard product $D(G)~\circ~ D(G)$ is called the squared distance matrix of $G$, and is denoted by $\Delta(G)$. A simple connected graph is called a starlike block…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Joyentanuj Das , Sumit Mohanty

Let $G$ be a connected graph with vertex set $V$. The distance, $d_G(u, v)$, between vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$ is defined as the length of a shortest path between $u$ and $v$ in $G$. The distance matrix of $G$ is the matrix $\mathbf{D}(G)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Miriam Abdón , Lilian Markenzon , Cybele T. M. Vinagre

For a connected graph $G$, we present the concept of a new graph matrix related to its distance and Seidel matrix, called distance Seidel matrix $\mathcal{D}^S(G)$. Suppose that the eigenvalues of $\mathcal{D}^S(G)$ be $\partial_{1}^{S}(G)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Haritha T , Chithra A.

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be a diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of $G$ as \begin{equation*} A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha G)+(1-\alpha)A(G),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Chang Liu , Zimo Yan , Jianping Li

Let $G$ be a connected graph with $V(G)=\{v_1,\ldots,v_n\}$. The $(i,j)$-entry of the distance matrix $D(G)$ of $G$ is the distance between $v_i$ and $v_j$. In this article, using the well-known Ramsey's theorem, we prove that for each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo , Verónica Moyano , Adrián Pastine

Let $\mathcal{U}(n,k)$ and $\Gamma(n,k)$ be the set of the $k$-uniform linear and nonlinear unicyclic hypergraphs having perfect matchings with $n$ vertices respectively, where $n\geq k(k-1)$ and $k\geq 3$. By using some techniques of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Rui Sun , Wen-Huan Wang , Zhen-Yu Ni

The distance matrix of a graph $G$ is the matrix containing the pairwise distances between vertices. The distance eigenvalues of $G$ are the eigenvalues of its distance matrix and they form the distance spectrum of $G$. We determine the…

For a simple graph $G$, the $3$-distance graph, $D_3(G)$, is a graph with the vertex set $V(G)$ and two vertices are adjacent if and only if their distance is $3$ in the graph $G$. For a connected graph $G$, we provide some conditions for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 S. R. Musawi , S. H. Jafari

The distance spectral radius of a connected hypergraph is the largest eigenvalue of the distance matrix of the hypergraph. A pendant path of length l with l greater than or equal to 1 in a hypergraph G at vertex v sub l plus 1 is a path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yanna Wang , Xuli Qi

Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph with vertex set $V(G)=\{v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n\}$ and edge set $E(G)$. The Sombor matrix $\mathcal{S}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined so that its $(i,j)$-entry is equal to $\sqrt{d_i^2+d_j^2}$ if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Zhen Lin