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A mixed graph is, informally, an object obtained from a simple undirected graph by choosing an orientation for a subset of its edges. A mixed graph is $(m, n)$-coloured if each edge is assigned one of $m \geq 0$ colours, and each arc is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Gary MacGillivray , Shahla Nasserasr , Feiran Yang

We construct infinitely many signed graphs having symmetric spectrum, by using the NEPS and rooted product of signed graphs. We also present a method for constructing large cospectral signed graphs. Although the obtained family contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Farzaneh Ramezani

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

We establish a quadratic identity for the Yamada polynomial of ribbon cubic graphs in 3-space, extending the Tutte golden identity for planar cubic graphs. An application is given to the structure of the flow polynomial of cubic graphs at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Ian Agol , Vyacheslav Krushkal

In the chip-firing variant, Diffusion, chips flow from places of high concentration to places of low concentration (or equivalently, from the rich to the poor). We explore this model on complete graphs, determining the number of different…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Todd Mullen , Richard Nowakowski , Danielle Cox

Zero forcing is an iterative graph coloring process whereby a colored vertex with a single uncolored neighbor forces that neighbor to be colored. It is NP-hard to find a minimum zero forcing set - a smallest set of initially colored…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Boris Brimkov

A graph $G$ is \emph{chordless} if no cycle in $G$ has a chord. In the present work we investigate the chromatic index and total chromatic number of chordless graphs. We describe a known decomposition result for chordless graphs and use it…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Raphael C. S. Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo , Nicolas Trotignon

A vertex colouring of a graph $G$ is "nonrepetitive" if $G$ contains no path for which the first half of the path is assigned the same sequence of colours as the second half. Thue's famous theorem says that every path is nonrepetitively…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-13 David R. Wood

In this paper we study zero--divisor graphs of rings and semirings. We show that all zero--divisor graphs of (possibly noncommutative) semirings are connected and have diameter less than or equal to 3. We characterize all acyclic…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-05-23 David Dolžan , Polona Oblak

A signed graph is an ordered pair $\Sigma=(G,\sigma),$ where $G=(V,E)$ is the underlying graph of $\Sigma$ with a signature function $\sigma:E\rightarrow \{1,-1\}$. In this article, we define $n^{th}$ power of a signed graph and discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Shijin T , Germina K A , Shahul Hameed K

Let $r \geq 2$ be a real number. A complex nowhere-zero $r$-flow on a graph $G$ is an orientation of $G$ together with an assignment $\varphi\colon E(G)\to \mathbb{C}$ such that, for all $e \in E(G)$, the modulus of the complex number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Davide Mattiolo , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Jozef Rajník , Gloria Tabarelli

A "signed graph" is a graph $\Gamma$ where the edges are assigned sign labels, either "$+$" or "$-$". The sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges. Let $\mathrm{SpecC}(\Gamma)$ denote the list of lengths of cycles in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Alex Schaefer , Thomas Zaslavsky

We define a perfect coloring of a graph $G$ as a proper coloring of $G$ such that every connected induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ uses exactly $\omega(H)$ many colors where $\omega(H)$ is the clique number of $H$. A graph is perfectly colorable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-15 R B Sandeep

In this paper, we study the signed domination numbers of graphs and present new sharp lower and upper bounds for this parameter. As an example, we present a lower bound on signed domination number of trees in terms of the order, leaves and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-27 S. M. Hosseini Moghaddam , Abdollah Khodkar , Babak Samadi

A total colouring of a graph is a colouring of its vertices and edges such that no two adjacent vertices or edges have the same colour and moreover, no edge coloured $c$ has its endvertex coloured $c$ too. A weak total Thue colouring of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Jens Schreyer , Erika Škrabuľáková

In this paper we describe protocols which use a standard deck of cards to provide a perfectly sound zero-knowledge proof for Hamiltonian cycles and Flow Free puzzles. The latter can easily be extended to provide a protocol for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Eammon Hart , Joshua A. McGinnis

In this paper, we characterize chordal and perfect zero-divisor graphs of finite posets. Also, it is proved that the zero-divisor graphs of finite posets and the complement of zero-divisor graphs of finite $0$-distributive posets satisfy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Nilesh Khandekar , Vinayak Joshi

Two signed graphs are called switching isomorphic if one of them is isomorphic to a switching equivalent of the other. To determine the number of switching non-isomorphic signed graphs on a specific graph, we will establish a method based…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Yousef Bagheri , Alireza Moghadamfar , Farzaneh Ramezani

A properly edge-colored graph is a graph with a coloring of its edges such that no vertex is incident to two or more edges of the same color. A subgraph is called rainbow if all its edges have different colors. The problem of finding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Benny Sudakov

In this paper, nonzero component graphs and nonzero component union graphs of finite dimensional vector space are studied using the zero-divisor graph of specially constructed 0-1-distributive lattice and the zero-divisor graph of rings.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Nilesh Khandekar , Peter J. Cameron , Vinayak Joshi