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In this paper, we characterize the extremal digraphs with the maximal or minimal $\alpha$-spectral radius among some digraph classes such as rose digraphs, generalized theta digraphs and tri-ring digraphs with given size $m$. These digraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Haiying Shan , Feifei Wang , Changxiang He

This paper presents bounds for the variation of the spectral radius $\lambda(G)$ of a graph $G$ after some perturbations or local vertex/edge modifications of $G$. The perturbations considered here are the connection of a new vertex with,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-25 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , E. Garriga

Let $G $ be a graph on $p$ vertices with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and degree matrix $D(G)$. For each $\alpha \in [0, 1]$, the $A_\alpha$-matrix is defined as $A_\alpha (G) = \alpha D(G) + (1 - \alpha)A(G)$. In this paper, we compute the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Najiya V K , Chithra A

Let $G$ be a simple connected undirected graph. The Laplacian spectral ratio of $G$, denoted by $R_L(G)$, is defined as the quotient between the largest and second smallest Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$, which is closely related to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Zhen Lin , Jiajia Wang , Min Cai

A fractional matching of $G$ is a function $f: E(G)\to [0,1]$ such that $\sum_{e\in E_G(v_i)}f(e)\le 1$ for any $v_i\in V(G)$, where $E_G(v_i)=\{e: e\in E(G) \ \textrm{and}\ e \ \textrm{is incident with} \ v_i\}$. Let $\alpha_f(G)$ denote…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Zengzhao Xu , Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

A {\it fractional matching} of a graph $G$ is a function $f$ giving each edge a number in $[0,1]$ so that $\sum_{e \in \Gamma(v)} f(e) \le 1$ for each $v\in V(G)$, where $\Gamma(v)$ is the set of edges incident to $v$. The {\it fractional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Suil O

For a connected graph, the distance spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its distance matrix. In this paper, of all trees with both given order and fixed diameter, the trees with the minimal distance spectral radius are completely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Guanglong Yu , Shuguang Guo , Mingqing Zhai

Let $G$ be a graph of size $m$ and $\rho(G)$ be the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix. A graph is said to be $F$-free if it does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $F$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a $K_{2,r+1}$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xiaona Fang , Lihua You

Let $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix and $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the vertex degrees of a simple connected graph $G$. Nikiforov defined the matrix $A_{\alpha}(G)$ of the convex combinations of $D(G)$ and $A(G)$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 S. Pirzada , Bilal A. Rather , Hilal A. Ganie , Rezwan ul Shaban

A connected graph is called a block graph if each of its blocks is a complete graph. Let $\mathbf{Bl}(\textbf{k}, \varphi)$ be the class of block graphs on $\textbf{k}$ vertices with given dissociation number $\varphi$. In this article, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Joyentanuj Das , Sumit Mohanty

Let $G$ be a graph. The spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For an integer $k\geq1$, a $k$-factor of $G$ is a $k$-regular spanning subgraph of $G$. Assume that $k$ and $n$ are integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Xinying Tang , Wenqian Zhang

Signed graphs have their edges labeled either as positive or negative. $\rho(M)$ denote the $M$-spectral radius of $\Sigma$, where $M=M(\Sigma)$ is a real symmetric graph matrix of $\Sigma$. Obviously,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Dan Li , Huiqiu Lin , Jixiang Meng

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph, and $D(G)$ be the distance matrix of $G$. Suppose that $D_{\max}(G)$ and $\lambda_1(G)$ are the maximum row sum and the spectral radius of $D(G)$, respectively. In this paper, we give a lower bound for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Lele Liu , Haiying Shan , Changxiang He

Let $D$ be a digraph of order $n$ with adjacency matrix $A(D)$. For $\alpha\in[0,1)$, the $A_{\alpha}$ matrix of $D$ is defined as $A_{\alpha}(D)=\alpha {\Delta}^{+}(D)+(1-\alpha)A(D)$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Mushtaq A. Bhat , Peer Abdul Manan

A graph is trivial if it contains one vertex and no edges. The essential connectivity $\kappa^{\prime}$ of $G$ is defined to be the minimum number of vertices of $G$ whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least two non-trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Wenxiu Ding , Dan Li , Yu Wang , Jixiang Meng

The signless Laplacian spectral radius of a graph $G$, denoted by $q(G)$, is the largest eigenvalue of its signless Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we investigate extremal signless Laplacian spectral radius for graphs without short cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Wenwen Chen , Bing Wang , Mingqing Zhai

In this paper we will apply the tensor and its traces to investigate the spectral characterization of unicyclic graphs. Let $G$ be a graph and $G^m$ be the $m$-th power (hypergraph) of $G$. The spectrum of $G$ is referring to its adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yi-Zheng Fan , Hong-Xia Yang , Jian Zheng

Let $G$ be a simple, connected graph, $\mathcal{D}(G)$ be the distance matrix of $G$, and $Tr(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of vertex transmissions of $G$. The distance Laplacian matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ are defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Pengli Lu , Wenzhi Liu

For a connected graph $G$, let $\mu(G)$ denote the distance spectral radius of $G$. A matching in a graph $G$ is a set of disjoint edges of $G$. The maximum size of a matching in $G$ is called the matching number of $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Zengzhao Xu , Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

Let $spex(n,H_{minor})$ denote the maximum spectral radius of $n$-vertex $H$-minor free graphs. The problem on determining this extremal value can be dated back to the early 1990s. Up to now, it has been solved for $n$ sufficiently large…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin