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Given a simple graph $G$, its $A_\alpha$ matrix is a convex combination with parameter $\alpha\in [0,1]$ of its adjacency matrix and its degree diagonal matrices. Here we compare two lower bounds presented in [J. D. G. Silva Jr., C. S.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Giovanni Barbarino

Let $G=G(n,p_n)$ be a homogeneous Erd\"os-R\'enyi graph, and $A$ its adjacency matrix with eigenvalues $\lambda_1(A) \geq \lambda_2(A) \geq ... \geq \lambda_n(A).$ Local laws have been used to show that $lambda_2(A)$ can exhibit…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Simona Diaconu

The graphs with all equal negative or positive eigenvalues are special kind in the spectral graph theory. In this article, several iterated line graphs $\mathcal{L}^k(G)$ with all equal negative eigenvalues $-2$ are characterized for $k\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Harishchandra S. Ramane , B. Parvathalu , Daneshwari Patil , K. Ashoka

For a graph $G$, let $\mathcal{S}(G)$ be the set consisting of Hermitian matrices whose graph is $G$. Denoted by $m_B(G,\lambda)$ the multiplicity of an eigenvalue $\lambda$ of $B(G)\in \mathcal{S}(G)$, we show that $m_B(G,\lambda)\le…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Qian-Qian Chen , Ji-Ming Guo , Zhiwen Wang

Let $A_\alpha(G)$ be the $A_\alpha$-matrix of a digraph $G$ and $\lambda_{\alpha 1}, \lambda_{\alpha 2}, \ldots, \lambda_{\alpha n}$ be the eigenvalues of $A_\alpha(G)$. Let $\rho_\alpha(G)$ be the $A_\alpha$ spectral radius of $G$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Xiuwen Yang , Ligong Wang

For a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with normalized Laplacian eigenvalues $0 = \lambda_1(G) \leq \lambda_2(G) \leq \cdots \leq \lambda_n(G)$ and graph complement $G^c$, we prove that \begin{equation*} \max\{\lambda_2(G),\lambda_2(G^c)\}\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 J. Nolan Faught , Mark Kempton , Adam Knudson

For a graph $G$, the spectral radius $\lambda_{1}(G)$ of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. An odd wheel $W_{2k+1}$ with $k\geq2$ is a graph obtained from a cycle of order $2k$ by adding a new vertex connecting to all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Wenqian Zhang

Let $\lambda_2$ be the second largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a connected graph. In 2023, Li and Sun \cite{LiSun1} determined all the connected $\{K_{2,3}, K_4\}$-minor free graphs whose second largest eigenvalue $\lambda_2\le…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Kun Cheng , Shuchao Li

Here we study the spectral properties of an underlying weighted graph of a non-uniform hypergraph by introducing different connectivity matrices, such as adjacency, Laplacian and normalized Laplacian matrices. We show that different…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Anirban Banerjee

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

Let $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ be the adjacency matrix and the degree diagonal matrix of a graph $G$, respectively. Then $L(G)=D(G)-A(G)$ is called Laplacian matrix of the graph $G$. Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Then the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Zhen Lin , Lianying Miao , Guanglong Yu , Han Sheng

The signless Laplacian spectral radius of a graph $G$, denoted by $q(G)$, is the largest eigenvalue of its signless Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we investigate extremal signless Laplacian spectral radius for graphs without short cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Wenwen Chen , Bing Wang , Mingqing Zhai

We consider modified Laplacian matrices of graphs, obtained by adding the identity matrix to the Laplacian matrix $L_G$ of a graph $G$. This results in a positive definite matrix $\tilde{L}_G$. The inverse of $\tilde{L}_G$ is a doubly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Enide Andrade , Geir Dahl

Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph, $\theta(G)$ be the circuit rank of $G$, $\eta_M(G)$ and $m_M(G,\lambda)$ be the nullity and the multiplicity of eigenvalue $\lambda$ of a graph matrix $M(G)$, respectively. In the case $M(G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Ahmet Batal

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

We address the Laplacian on a perturbed periodic graph which might not be a periodic graph. We present a class of perturbed graphs for which the essential spectra of the Laplacians are stable even when the graphs are perturbed by adding and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Itaru Sasaki , Akito Suzuki

Let $q_{\min}(G)$ stand for the smallest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian of a graph $G$ of order $n.$ This paper gives some results on the following extremal problem: How large can $q_\min\left( G\right) $ be if $G$ is a graph of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Leonardo de Lima , Vladimir Nikiforov , Carla Oliveira

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 2019-07-15 Dandan Fan , Guoping Wang , Yinfeng Zhu

Suppose $G$ is a connected simple graph with the vertex set $V( G ) = \{ v_1,v_2,\cdots ,v_n \} $. Let $d_G( v_i,v_j ) $ be the least distance between $v_i$ and $v_j$ in $G$. Then the distance matrix of $G$ is $D( G ) =( d_{ij} ) _{n\times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Xu Chen , Yinfen Zhu , Guoping Wang

Let $G$ be a digraph and $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. Let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix with outdegrees of vertices of $G$. For any real $\alpha\in[0,1]$, Liu et al. \cite{LWCL} defined the matrix $A_\alpha(G)$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Weige Xi , Wasin So , Ligong Wang