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Tan et al. conjectured that connected co-edge-regular graphs with four distinct eigenvalues and fixed smallest eigenvalue, when having sufficiently large valency, belong to two different families of graphs. In this paper we construct two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Hong-Jun Ge , Jack H. Koolen

A nut graph is a non-trivial simple graph such that its adjacency matrix has a one-dimensional null space spanned by a full vector. It was recently shown by the authors that there exists a $d$-regular circulant nut graph of order $n$ if and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ivan Damnjanović

A \textit{biclique} is a maximal induced complete bipartite subgraph of $G$. The \textit{biclique graph} of a graph $G$, denoted by $KB(G)$, is the intersection graph of the family of all bicliques of $G$. In this work we study some…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Marina Groshaus , Leandro Montero

We show that every $3$-connected $K_{2,\ell}$-minor free graph with minimum degree at least $4$ has maximum degree at most $7\ell$. As a consequence, we show that every 3-connected $K_{2,\ell}$-minor free graph with minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Nicolas Bousquet , Théo Pierron , Alexandra Wesolek

In earlier papers, we showed a decomposition of 2-diregular digraphs (2-dds) and used it to provide some sufficient conditions for these graphs to be non-Hamiltonian; we also showed a close connection between the permanent and determinant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Munagala V. S. Ramanath

We give a bound on the spectral radius of subgraphs of regular graphs with given order and diameter. We give a lower bound on the smallest eigenvalue of a nonbipartite regular graph of given order and diameter.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-25 Vladimir Nikiforov

It is known that, up to isomorphism, there is a unique distance-regular graph $\Delta$ with intersection array {32,27;1,12} (equivalently, $\Delta$ is the unique strongly regular graph with parameters (105,32,4,12)). Here we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-21 Leonard H. Soicher

Undirected co-graphs are those graphs which can be generated from the single vertex graph by disjoint union and join operations. Co-graphs are exactly the P_4-free graphs (where P_4 denotes the path on 4 vertices). Co-graphs itself and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

An interval graph is proper iff it has a representation in which no interval contains another. Fred Roberts characterized the proper interval graphs as those containing no induced star $K_{1,3}$. Proskurowski and Telle have studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Jeffrey Beyerl , Robert E. Jamison

The circumference denoted by $c(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the length of its longest cycle. Let $\delta(G)$ and $\omega(G)$ denote the minimum degree and the clique number of a graph $G$, respectively. In [\emph{Electron. J. Combin.} 31(4)(2024)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Na Chen , Yurui Tang

We study graphs on $n$ vertices which have $2n-2$ edges and no proper induced subgraphs of minimum degree $3$. Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp conjectured that such graphs always have cycles of lengths $3,4,5,\dots, C(n)$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Lothar Narins , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

In this paper we determine the unique graph with minimum distance spectral radius among all connected graphs of fixed order and given edge connectivity.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Xiao-Xin Li , Yi-Zheng Fan , Yi Wang

A matchstick graph is a planar unit-distance graph. We call it \emph{4-regular} if every vertex has degree 4. While examples of 4-regular matchstick graphs with fewer than 63 vertices are known only for $n \in \{52, 54, 57, 60\}$, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Mike Winkler , Peter Dinkelacker , Stefan Vogel

In this paper, we investigate rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ of bridgeless outerplanar graphs $G$ with diameter 2 or 3. We proved the following results: If $G$ has diameter $2,$ then $rc(G)=3$ for fan graphs $F_{n}$ with $n\geq 7$ or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Xingchao Deng , He Song , Guifu Su , Weihua Yang

Distance ideals generalize the Smith normal form of the distance matrix of a graph. The family of graphs with 2 trivial distance ideals contains the family of graphs whose distance matrix has at most 2 invariant factors equal to 1. Here we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Carlos A. Alfaro

A graph $G$ is a link-irregular graph if every two distinct vertices of $G$ have non-isomorphic links. The link of a vertex $v$ in $G$ is the subgraph induced by the neighbors of $v$ in $G$. Ali, Chartrand and Zhang [Discussiones…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Bastien , Omid Khormali

In this article, we study quantum automorphism groups of distance-transitive graphs. We show that the odd graphs, the Hamming graphs $H(n,3)$, the Johnson graphs $J(n,2)$ and the Kneser graphs $K(n,2)$ do not have quantum symmetry. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Simon Schmidt

A connected graph $G$ with a perfect matching is said to be $k$-extendable for integers $k$, $1 \leq k\leq \frac{|V(G)|}{2}-1$, if any matching in $G$ of size $k$ is contained in a perfect matching of $G$. A $k$-extendable graph is minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Jing Guo , Fuliang Lu , Heping Zhang

We consider a bipartite distance-regular graph $G$ with diameter $D$ at least 4 and valency $k$ at least 3. We obtain upper and lower bounds for the local eigenvalues of $G$ in terms of the intersection numbers of $G$ and the eigenvalues of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark S. MacLean , Paul Terwilliger

We study the problem of calculating noncommutative distances on graphs, using techniques from linear algebra, specifically, Birkhoff-James orthogonality. A complete characterization of the solutions is obtained in the case when the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Pierre Clare , Chi-Kwong Li , Edward Poon , Eric Swartz