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We consider chemical graphs that are defined as connected graphs of maximum degree at most 3. We characterize the extremal graphs, meaning those that maximize or minimize 33 degree-based topological indices. This study shows that five graph…

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A set of edges $\Gamma$ of a graph $G$ is an edge dominating set if every edge of $G$ intersects at least one edge of $\Gamma$, and the edge domination number $\gamma_e(G)$ is the smallest size of an edge dominating set. Expanding on work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Sam Spiro , Sam Adriaensen , Sam Mattheus

Many important results in extremal graph theory can be roughly summarised as "if a triangle-free graph $G$ has certain properties, then it has a homomorphism to a triangle-free graph $\Gamma$ of bounded size". For example, bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lior Gishboliner , Eoin Hurley , Yuval Wigderson

This paper establishes an upper bound on the number of generalized cospectral mates of simple graphs, where the generalized spectrum consists of the spectrum of a graph and its complement. Moving beyond the classical problem of identifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Muhammad Raza , Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas

Strongly regular graphs are regular graphs with a constant number of common neighbours between adjacent vertices, and a constant number of common neighbours between non-adjacent vertices. These graphs have been of great interest over the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-30 William H. Allen

Rank 1 inhomogeneous random graphs are a natural generalization of Erd\H{o}s R\'enyi random graphs. In this generalization each node is given a weight. Then the probability that an edge is present depends on the product of the weights of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Othmane Safsafi

We investigate the dynamic formation of regular random graphs. In our model, we pick a pair of nodes at random and connect them with a link if both of their degrees are smaller than d. Starting with a set of isolated nodes, we repeat this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-16 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We discuss a partial normalisation of a finite graph of finite groups $(\Gamma(-), X)$ which leaves invariant the fundamental group. In conjunction with an easy graph-theoretic result, this provides a flexible and rather useful tool in the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Christian Krattenthaler , Thomas W. Müller

A $d$-regular graph on $n$ nodes has at most $T_{\max} = \frac{n}{3} \tbinom{d}{2}$ triangles. We compute the leading asymptotics of the probability that a large random $d$-regular graph has at least $c \cdot T_{\max}$ triangles, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Elchanan Mossel

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The distinguishing stability, of a graph $G$ is denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph of order $n$ with diameter $d$. Let $m_G(-1)$ denote the multiplicity of the eigenvalue $-1$ of the adjacency matrix of $G$, and let $P = P_{d+1}$ be the diameter path of $G$. If $-1$ is not an eigenvalue…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Songnian Xu , Wenhao Zhen , Dein Wong

A $1$-factorization of a graph $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint perfect matchings whose union is $E(G)$. A trivial necessary condition for $G$ to admit a $1$-factorization is that $|V(G)|$ is even and $G$ is regular; the converse is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Asaf Ferber , Vishesh Jain

We analyze graphs attaining the extreme values of various spectral indices in the class of all simple connected graphs, as well as in the class of graphs which are not complete multipartite graphs. We also present results on density of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Sona Pavlikova , Daniel Sevcovic , Jozef Siran

The $p$-spectral radius of a graph $G\ $of order $n$ is defined for any real number $p\geq1$ as \[ \lambda^{\left( p\right) }\left( G\right) =\max\left\{ 2\sum_{\{i,j\}\in E\left( G\right) \ }x_{i}x_{j}:x_{1},\ldots,x_{n}\in\mathbb{R}\text{…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Liying Kang , Vladimir Nikiforov

In this paper, we develop efficient exact and approximate algorithms for computing a maximum independent set in random graphs. In a random graph $G$, each pair of vertices are joined by an edge with a probability $p$, where $p$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Yinglei Song

We describe an infinite family of graphs $G_n$, where $G_n$ has $n$ vertices, independence number at least $n/4$, and no set of less than $\sqrt{n}/2$ vertices intersects all its maximum independent sets. This is motivated by a question of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Noga Alon

Recently, variants of many classical extremal theorems have been proved in the random environment. We, complementing existing results, extend the Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem in random graphs. In particular, we determine, up to a constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-15 József Balogh , Andrzej Dudek , Lina Li

For a given positive integer t we consider graphs having maximal independent sets of precisely t distinct cardinalities and restrict our attention to those that have no vertices of degree one. In the situation when t is four or larger and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Bert L. Hartnell , Douglas F. Rall

A matching in a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ is a set of pairwise disjoint hyperedges. The matching number $\nu(\mathcal{H})$ of $\mathcal{H}$ is the size of a maximum matching in $\mathcal{H}$. A subset $D$ of vertices of $\mathcal{H}$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Erfang Shan , Yanxia Dong , Liying Kang , Shan Li

The d-measurement set of a graph is its set of possible squared edge lengths over all d-dimensional embeddings. In this note, we define a new notion of graph isomorphism called d-measurement isomorphism. Two graphs are d-measurement…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Steven J. Gortler , Dylan P. Thurston