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In this note, we study Laplacians on graphs for which connectivity within certain subgraphs tends to infinity. Our main focus are graphs sharing a common node set on which edge weights within certain clusters grow to infinity. As…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Christian Koke

The magnitude of a graph is one of a family of cardinality-like invariants extending across mathematics; it is a cousin to Euler characteristic and geometric measure. Among its cardinality-like properties are multiplicativity with respect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tom Leinster

Given a finite, simple, connected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $|V|=n$, we consider the associated graph Laplacian matrix $L = D - A$ with eigenvalues $0 = \lambda_1 < \lambda_2 \leq \dots \leq \lambda_n$. One can also consider the same graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

On a periodic planar graph whose edge weights satisfy a certain simple geometric condition, the discrete Laplacian and d-bar operators have the property that their determinants and inverses only depend on the local geometry of the graph. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Richard Kenyon

A complex unit gain graph is a graph where each orientation of an edge is given a complex unit, which is the inverse of the complex unit assigned to the opposite orientation. We extend some fundamental concepts from spectral graph theory to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Nathan Reff

We study homomorphism polynomials, which are polynomials that enumerate all homomorphisms from a pattern graph $H$ to $n$-vertex graphs. These polynomials have received a lot of attention recently for their crucial role in several new…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Balagopal Komarath , Anurag Pandey , C. S. Rahul

We investigate the structure of conformally rigid graphs. Graphs are conformally rigid if introducing edge weights cannot increase (decrease) the second (last) eigenvalue of the Graph Laplacian. Edge-transitive graphs and distance-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-26 João Gouveia , Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

We study graph products of groups from the viewpoint of measured group theory. We first establish a full measure equivalence classification of graph products of countably infinite groups over finite simple graphs with no transvection and no…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Amandine Escalier , Camille Horbez

The median of a graph $G$ with weighted vertices is the set of all vertices $x$ minimizing the sum of weighted distances from $x$ to the vertices of $G$. For any integer $p\ge 2$, we characterize the graphs in which, with respect to any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Laurine Bénéteau , Jérémie Chalopin , Victor Chepoi , Yann Vaxès

The transmission of a vertex $v$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of distances from $v$ to all the other vertices in $G$. The Wiener complexity of $G$ is the number of different transmissions of its vertices. Similarly, the eccentric complexity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Kexiang Xu , Aleksandar Ilić , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar , Huimin Li

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a set of positive numbers. A graph $G$ is called an $\mathcal{A}$-embeddable graph in $\mathbb{R}^d$ if the vertices of $G$ can be positioned in $\mathbb{R}^d$ so that the distance between endpoints of any edge is an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Mikhail Tikhomirov

We introduce a family of graph parameters, called induced multipartite graph parameters, and study their computational complexity. First, we consider the following decision problem: an instance is an induced multipartite graph parameter $p$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Ryan L. Mann , Luke Mathieson , Catherine Greenhill

Root separation bounds play an important role as a complexity measure in understanding the behaviour of various algorithms in computational algebra, e.g., root isolation algorithms. A classic result in the univariate setting is the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Vikram Sharma

In graph realization problems one is given a degree sequence and the task is to decide whether there is a graph whose vertex degrees match to the given sequence. This realization problem is known to be polynomial-time solvable when the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

Edge-weighted graphs play an important role in the theory of Robinsonian matrices and similarity theory, particularly via the concept of level graphs, that is, graphs obtained from an edge-weighted graph by removing all sufficiently light…

We discuss the definability of finite graphs in first-order logic with two relation symbols for adjacency and equality of vertices. The logical depth $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is equal to the minimum quantifier depth of a sentence defining $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Oleg Pikhurko , Oleg Verbitsky

This work explores the definiteness of the weighted graph Laplacian matrix with negative edge weights. The definiteness of the weighted Laplacian is studied in terms of certain matrices that are related via congruent and similarity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Daniel Zelazo , Mathias Bürger

This work is the extension of the results by the author in [7] and [6] for low-genus surfaces. Let $S$ be an orientable, connected surface of finite topological type, with genus $g \leq 2$, empty boundary, and complexity at least $2$; as a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jesús Hernández Hernández

In a recent paper, we studied the interaction between the automorphism group of a graph and its Tutte polynomial. More precisely, we proved that certain symmetries of graphs are clearly reflected by their Tutte polynomials. The purpose of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Chbili Nafaa