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Let $G = (V, E)$ be a graph. We define matrices $M(G; \alpha, \beta)$as $\alpha D + \beta A$, where $\alpha$, $\beta$ are real numbers such that $(\alpha, \beta) \neq (0, 0)$ and $D$ and $A$ are the diagonal matrix and adjacency matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Rao Li

Brualdi and Hoffman proposed a well-known problem of determining the graph with maximum adjacency spectral radius among all graphs with given size $m$. Early work by Friedland and Stanley addressed some specific cases. This problem was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Hongzhang Chen , Jianxi Li , Yongtao Li

This paper considers minimum-dimensional representations of graphs in pseudo-Euclidean spaces, where adjacency and non-adjacency relations are reflected in fixed scalar square values. A representation of a simple graph $(V,E)$ is a mapping…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara , Sho Suda

Given a graph $G$, let $\lambda_3$ denote the third largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we prove various results towards the conjecture that $\lambda_3(G) \le \frac{|V(G)|}{3}$, motivated by a question of Nikiforov.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Giacomo Leonida , Sida Li

Let $G$ be a connected graph with vertex set $V$. The distance, $d_G(u, v)$, between vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$ is defined as the length of a shortest path between $u$ and $v$ in $G$. The distance matrix of $G$ is the matrix $\mathbf{D}(G)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Miriam Abdón , Lilian Markenzon , Cybele T. M. Vinagre

For a given complex square matrix $A$ with constant row sum, we establish two new eigenvalue inclusion sets. Using these bounds, first we derive bounds for the second largest and smallest eigenvalues of adjacency matrices of $k$-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Ranjit Mehatari , M. Rajesh Kannan

The smallest nonzero eigenvalue of the normalized Laplacian matrix of a graph has been extensively studied and shown to have many connections to properties of the graph. We here study a generalization of this eigenvalue, denoted $\lambda(G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Mary Radcliffe , Chris Williamson

We study the weights of eigenvectors of the Johnson graphs $J(n,w)$. For any $i \in \{1,\ldots,w\}$ and sufficiently large $n, n\geq n(i,w)$ we show that an eigenvector of $J(n,w)$ with the eigenvalue $\lambda_i=(n-w-i)(w-i)-i$ has at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Konstantin Vorob'ev , Ivan Mogilnykh , Alexandr Valyuzhenich

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. In [Linear Algebra Appl. 435 (2011) 2570-2584], Lima et al. posed the following conjecture on the least eigenvalue $q_n(G)$ of the signless Laplacian of $G$: $\displaystyle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Shu-Guang Guo , Yong-Gao Chen , Guanglong Yu

In this paper, we show that every connected signed graph with smallest eigenvalue strictly greater than $-2$ and large enough minimum degree is switching equivalent to a complete graph. This is a signed analogue of a theorem of Hoffman. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Alexander L. Gavrilyuk , Akihiro Munemasa , Yoshio Sano , Tetsuji Taniguchi

Chung, Graham, and Wilson proved that a graph is quasirandom if and only if there is a large gap between its first and second largest eigenvalue. Recently, the authors extended this characterization to k-uniform hypergraphs, but only for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 John Lenz , Dhruv Mubayi

The Hamming graph $H(n,q)$ is the graph whose vertices are the words of length $n$ over the alphabet $\{0,1,\ldots,q-1\}$, where two vertices are adjacent if they differ in exactly one coordinate. The adjacency matrix of $H(n,q)$ has $n+1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Alexandr Valyuzhenich

We prove that a distance-regular graph with a dominant distance is a spectral expander. The key ingredient of the proof is a new inequality on the intersection numbers. We use the spectral gap bound to study the structure of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Bohdan Kivva

We give a characterization of distance--preserving subgraphs of Johnson graphs, i.e. of graphs which are isometrically embeddable into Johnson graphs (the Johnson graph $J(m,\Lambda)$ has the subsets of cardinality $m$ of a set $\Lambda$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Victor Chepoi

In 1976, Cameron, Goethals, Seidel, and Shult classified all the graphs whose smallest eigenvalue is at least $-2$ by relating such graphs to root systems that appear in the classification of semisimple Lie algebras. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Hricha Acharya , Zilin Jiang

The second-largest eigenvalue and second-smallest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph are measures of its connectivity. These eigenvalues can be used to analyze the robustness, resilience, and synchronizability of networks, and are related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Aida Abiad , Boris Brimkov , Xavier Martinez-Rivera , O Suil , Jingmei Zhang

In this paper, some special distance spectral properties of graphs are considered. Concretely, we recursively construct an infinite family of trees with distance eigenvalue $-1$, and determine all $\{C_3,C_4\}$-free connected graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Yuke Zhang , Huiqiu Lin

Bollob\'as and Nikiforov [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B. 97 (2007) 859--865] conjectured the following. If $G$ is a $K_{r+1}$-free graph on at least $r+1$ vertices and $m$ edges, then $\lambda^2_1(G)+\lambda^2_2(G)\leq \frac{r-1}{r}\cdot2m$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Huiqiu Lin , Bo Ning , Baoyindureng Wu

Let $m$ be a positive integer. Brualdi and Hoffman proposed the problem to determine the (connected) graphs with maximum spectral radius in a given graph class and they posed a conjecture for the class of graphs with given size $m$. After…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

In this article, we study Pareto eigenvalues of distance matrix of connected graphs and show that the non zero entries of every distance Pareto eigenvector of a tree forms a strictly convex function on the forest generated by the vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Milan Nath , Deepak Sarma