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We consider the Cayley graph on the symmetric group Sn generated by derangements. It is well known that the eigenvalues of this grpah are indexed by partitions of n. We investigate how these eigenvalues are determined by the shape of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-21 Cheng Yeaw Ku , David B. Wales

A lower bound on the solution to the traveling salesman problem is provided, which is expressed in terms of eigenvalues related to the distance matrix for the problem. This bound has many interesting properties such as transforming…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Lasse H. Wolff

Let $G$ be a connected $d$-regular graph with a given order and the second largest eigenvalue $\lambda_2(G)$. Mohar and O (private communication) asked a challenging problem: what is the best upper bound for $\lambda_2(G)$ which guarantees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Wenqian Zhang , Jianfeng Wang

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group written additively with identity $0$, and $\Omega$ be an inverse closed generating subset of $G$ such that $0\notin \Omega$. We say that $ \Omega $ has the property \lq\lq{}$us$\rq\rq{} (unique summation),…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-13 S. Morteza Mirafzal

The study of eigenvalue multiplicities plays a central role in the spectral theory of signed graphs, extending several classical results from the unsigned setting. While most existing work focuses on the nullity of a signed graph (the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Monther R. Alfuraidan , Suliman Khan

We give an example of a Cayley graph $\Gamma$ for the group $F_{2}\times F_{2}$ which is not minimally almost convex (MAC). On the other hand, the standard Cayley graph for $F_{2}\times F_{2}$ does satisfy the falsification by fellow…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Andrew Elvey Price

We consider latin square graphs $\Gamma = \rm{LSG}(H)$ of the Cayley table of a given finite group $H$. We characterize all pairs $(\Gamma,G)$, where $G$ is a subgroup of autoparatopisms of the Cayley table of $H$ such that $G$ acts…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Carmen Amarra

Let $G$ be a regular graph with $m$ edges, and let $\mu_1, \mu_2$ denote the two largest eigenvalues of $A_G$, the adjacency matrix of $G$. We show that, if $G$ is not complete, then $$\mu_1^2 + \mu_2^2 \leq \frac{2(\omega - 1)}{\omega} m$$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Shengtong Zhang

Let $G$ be a simple graph with $n$ vertices and $e(G)$ edges, and $q_1(G)\geq q_2(G)\geq\cdots\geq q_n(G)\geq0$ be the signless Laplacian eigenvalues of $G.$ Let $S_k^+(G)=\sum_{i=1}^{k}q_i(G),$ where $k=1, 2, \ldots, n.$ F. Ashraf et al.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Lihua You , Jieshan Yang

Transposition graph $T_n$ is defined as a Cayley graph over the symmetric group generated by all transpositions. It is known that all eigenvalues of $T_n$ are integers. Moreover, zero is its eigenvalue for any $n\geqslant 4$. But the exact…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Elena V. Konstantinova , Artem Kravchuk

We characterize all connected graphs with second distance eigenvalue less than $-0.5858$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Rundan Xing , Bo Zhou

We present a new method for upper bounding the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian of graphs. Our approach uses multi-commodity flows to deform the geometry of the graph; we embed the resulting metric into Euclidean space to recover a bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-08-09 Punyashloka Biswal , James R. Lee , Satish Rao

A Cayley graph $\Ga=\Cay(G,S)$ is said to be normal if the right-regular representation of $G$ is normal in $\Aut\Ga$. In this paper, we investigate the normality problem of the connected 13-valent symmetric Cayley graphs $\Ga$ of finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Bengong Lou , Zheng Zuo , Bo Ling

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and let $\mu_{1}\left(G\right) \geq \cdots\geq\mu_{n}\left(G\right) $ be the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. This note studies eigenvalue problems of Nordhaus-Gaddum type. Let $\overline{G}$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Vladimir Nikiforov , Xiying Yuan

A pair of graphs $(\Gamma,\Sigma)$ is called unstable if their direct product $\Gamma\times\Sigma$ admits automorphisms not from $\mathrm{Aut}(\Gamma)\times\mathrm{Aut}(\Sigma)$, and such automorphisms are said to be unexpected. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Xiaomeng Wang , Yan-Li Qin , Binzhou Xia

Let $\Gamma$ be a simple graph with $n$ vertices. The energy of $\Gamma$, denoted by $\mathcal{E}(\Gamma)$, is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of $\Gamma$. The graph $\Gamma$ is said to be hyperenergetic if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Mahdi Ebrahimi

In this paper we introduce and study a type of Cayley graph -- subnormal Cayley graph. We prove that a subnormal 2-arc transitive Cayley graph is a normal Cayley graph or a normal cover of a complete bipartite graph $K_{p^d,p^d}$ with $p$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Shu Jiao Song

Let $G$ be a simple graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$, signless Laplacian matrix $Q(G)$, degree diagonal matrix $D(G)$ and let $l(G)$ be the line graph of $G$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the $A_\alpha$-matrix of $G$, $A_\alpha(G)$, as a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Joao Domingos Gomes da Silva Junior , Carla Silva Oliveira , Liliana Manuela Gaspar C. da Costa

The $k$-token graph $F_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is the graph whose vertices are the ${n\choose k}$ $k$-subsets of vertices from $G$, two of which being adjacent whenever their symmetric difference is a pair of adjacent vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Cristina Dalfó , Miquel Àngel Fiol , Arnau Messegué

A pair of graphs $(\Gamma,\Sigma)$ is said to be stable if the full automorphism group of $\Gamma\times\Sigma$ is isomorphic to the product of the full automorphism groups of $\Gamma$ and $\Sigma$ and unstable otherwise, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Yan-Li Qin , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou