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A labelling of a graph is an assignment of labels to its vertex or edge sets (or both), subject to certain conditions, a well established concept. A labelling of a graph G of order n is termed a numbering when the set of integers {1,...,n}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Les Foulds , Humberto J. Longo

The spectral properties of signed directed graphs, which may be naturally obtained by assigning a sign to each edge of a directed graph, have received substantially less attention than those of their undirected and/or unsigned counterparts.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Pepijn Wissing , Edwin R. van Dam

Signed graphs are graphs with signed edges. They are commonly used to represent positive and negative relationships in social networks. While balance theory and clusterizable graphs deal with signed graphs to represent social interactions,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Christopher Thraves

The index of a signed graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For positive integers $n$ and $m\le n^2/4$, we determine the maximal index of complete signed graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ negative edges. This settles (the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Ebrahim Ghorbani , Arezoo Majidi

The total graph is built by joining the graph to its line graph by means of the incidences. We introduce a similar construction for signed graphs. Under two similar definitions of the line signed graph, we define the corresponding total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Francesco Belardo , Zoran Stanić , Thomas Zaslavsky

For natural numbers $k<n$ we study the graphs $T_{n,k}:=K_{k}\lor\overline{K_{n-k}}$. For $k=1$, $T_{n,1}$ is the star $S_{n-1}$. For $k>1$ we refer to $T_{n,k}$ as a \emph{graph of pyramids}. We prove that the graphs of pyramids are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Noam Krupnik , Abraham Berman

A signified graph is a pair $(G, \Sigma)$ where $G$ is a graph, and $\Sigma$ is a set of edges marked with '$-$'. Other edges are marked with '$+$'. A signified coloring of the signified graph $(G, \Sigma)$ is a homomorphism into a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Janusz Dybizbanski

A graph is determined by its signless Laplacian spectrum if there is no other non-isomorphic graph sharing the same signless Laplacian spectrum. Let $C_l$, $P_l$, $K_l$ and $K_{s,l-s}$ be the cycle, the path, the complete graph and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jiachang Ye , Jianguo Qian , Zoran Stanić

A 2-edge-colored graph or a signed graph is a simple graph with two types of edges. A homomorphism from a 2-edge-colored graph $G$ to a 2-edge-colored graph $H$ is a mapping $\varphi: V(G) \rightarrow V(H)$ that maps every edge in $G$ to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Christopher Duffy , Fabien Jacques , Mickael Montassier , Alexandre Pinlou

Let $\Sigma$ be an $n$-vertex controllable or almost controllable signed bipartite graph, and let $\Delta_\Sigma$ denote the discriminant of its characteristic polynomial $\chi(\Sigma; x)$. We prove that if (\rmnum{1}) the integer $2^{…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Songlin Guo , Wei Wang , Lele Li

A signed graph is one that features two types of edges: positive and negative. Balanced signed graphs are those in which all cycles contain an even number of positive edges. In the adjacency matrix of a signed graph, entries can be $0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

A real symmetric matrix $A$ is copositive if $x^TAx\ge 0$ for every nonnegative vector $x$. A matrix is SPN if it is a sum of a real positive semidefinite matrix and a nonnegative one. Every SPN matrix is copositive, but the converse does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Naomi Shaked-Monderer

A signed graph is a graph in which every edge carries a $+$ or a $-$ sign. In this paper, we determine the signed graphs with maximum spectral radius among all unbalanced signed graphs with fixed order that contain neither negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yiting Cai , Bo Zhou

Let $\gamma'_s(G)$ be the signed edge domination number of G. In 2006, Xu conjectured that: for any $2$-connected graph G of order $ n (n \geq 2),$ $\gamma'_s(G)\geq 1$. In this article we show that this conjecture is not true. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Saeed Akbari , Sadegh Bolouki , Pooya Hatami , Milad Siami

To each permutation $\sigma$ in $S_{n}$ we associate a triangulation of a fixed $(n+2)$-gon. We then determine the fibers of this association and show that they coincide with the sylvester classes depicted By Novelli, Hivert and Thibon. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shalom Eliahou , Cedric Lecouvey

Let $n$ be any positive integer, the friendship graph $F_n$ consist of $n$ edge-disjoint triangles that all of them meeting in one vertex. A graph $G$ is called cospectral with a graph $H$ if their adjacency matrices have the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Alireza Abdollahi , Shahrooz Janbaz

A signed graph $\Sigma$ is a pair $(G,\sigma)$, where $G=(V,E)$ is the underlying graph in which each edge is assigned $+1$ or $-1$ by the signature function $\sigma:E\rightarrow\{-1,+1\}$. In this paper, we extend the extensively applied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Shahul Hameed K , Remna K P , Divya T2 , Biju K , Rajeevan P , Santhosh G O2 , Ramakrishnan K O

A mixed graph is a set of vertices together with an edge set and an arc set. An $(m,n)$-mixed graph $G$ is a mixed graph whose edges are each assigned one of $m$ colours, and whose arcs are each assigned one of $n$ colours. A \emph{switch}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Richard C Brewster , Arnott Kidner , Gary MacGillivray

We examine the adjacency spectrum of trees with diameter three, also referred to as double stars. Using $P_2(a,b)$ to denote a double star with $ a$ and $b$ leaves at its respective endpoints, we discuss graphs which are cospectral to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Emily Barranca , Michael D. Barrus

This paper studies the choosability of signed planar graphs. We prove that every signed planar graph is 5-choosable and that there is a signed planar graph which is not 4-choosable while the unsigned graph is 4-choosable. For each $k \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Ligang Jin , Yingli Kang , Eckhard Steffen