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Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$ and $\mu_{1},\mu_{2},\ldots,\mu_{n}$ be the roots of its matching polynomial. The matching energy is defined as the sum $\sum^{n}_{i=1}|\mu_{i}|$, which was introduced by Gutman and Wagner in 2012. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Xiangxiang Liu , Ligong Wang , Peng Xiao

For a graph $G$, its spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. A fan $H_{\ell}$ is a graph obtained by connecting a single vertex to all vertices of a path of order $\ell\geq4$. Let ${\rm SPEX(n,H_{\ell})}$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Wenqian Zhang

Graph energy and Domination in graphs are most studied areas of graph theory. In this paper we made an attempt to connect these two areas of graph theory by introducing c-dominating energy of a graph $G$. First, we show the chemical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-16 S. M. Hosamani , V. B. Awati , R. M. Honmore

Let $G$ be a finite group of order $n$, and let $C_n$ be the cyclic group of order $n$. We show that $\sum_{g \in C_n} \phi(\mathrm{o}(g))\geq \sum_{g \in G} \phi(\mathrm{o}(g))$, with equality if and only if $G$ is isomorphic to $C_n$. As…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Brian Curtin , Gholam Reza Pourgholi

In 1970s, Gutman introduced the concept of the energy $\En(G)$ for a simple graph $G$, which is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of $G$. This graph invariant has attracted much attention, and many lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Wenxue Du , Xueliang Li , Yiyang Li

For a graph $\Gamma$, the multiplicity of the eigenvalue $0$, denoted by $\eta(\Gamma)$, is called the nullity of $\Gamma$. Also the energy of $\Gamma$, denoted by $\mathcal{E}(\Gamma)$, is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Mahdi Ebrahimi

Energy of a simple graph $G$, denoted by $\mathcal{E}(G)$, is the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of $G$. Two graphs with the same order and energy are called equienergetic graphs. A graph $G$ with the property $G\cong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Akbar Ali , Suresh Elumalai , Toufik Mansour , Mohammad Ali Rostami

For large $n$ we determine the maximum number of induced 6-cycles which can be contained in a planar graph on $n$ vertices, and we classify the graphs which achieve this maximum. In particular we show that the maximum is achieved by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Michael Savery

In his survey "Beyond graph energy: Norms of graphs and matrices" (2016), Nikiforov proposed two problems concerning characterizing the graphs that attain equality in a lower bound and in a upper bound for the energy of a graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 N. E. Arévalo , R. O. Braga , V. M. Rodrigues

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices with $r := \lfloor n/2 \rfloor$ and let $\lambda_1 \geq...\geq \lambda_{n} $ be adjacency eigenvalues of $G$. Then the H\"uckel energy of $G$, HE($G$), is defined as $$\he(G) = {ll} 2\sum_{i=1}^{r}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-04 Ebrahim Ghorbani , Jack H. Koolen , Jae Young Yang

A planar graph is essentially $4$-connected if it is 3-connected and every of its 3-separators is the neighborhood of a single vertex. Jackson and Wormald proved that every essentially 4-connected planar graph $G$ on $n$ vertices contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Igor Fabrici , Jochen Harant , Samuel Mohr , Jens M. Schmidt

For a planar graph $H$, let $\operatorname{\mathbf{N}}_{\mathcal P}(n,H)$ denote the maximum number of copies of $H$ in an $n$-vertex planar graph. In this paper, we prove that $\operatorname{\mathbf{N}}_{\mathcal P}(n,P_7)\sim{4\over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Christopher Cox , Ryan R. Martin

A set S is independent in a graph G if no two vertices from S are adjacent. By core(G) we mean the intersection of all maximum independent sets. The independence number alpha(G) is the cardinality of a maximum independent set, while mu(G)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-24 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

For a cycle $C_k$ on $k$ vertices, its $p$-th power, denoted $C_k^p$, is the graph obtained by adding edges between all pairs of vertices at distance at most $p$ in $C_k$. Let $\ex(n, F)$ and $\spex(n, F)$ denote the maximum possible number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Xinhui Duan , Lu Lu

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the simple graph with vertex set $G$, in which two distinct vertices are adjacent if one of them is a power of the other. For an integer $n\geq 2$, let $C_n$ denote the cyclic group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Sanjay Mukherjee , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

Given a graph $G$, the burning number of $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ for which there are vertices $x_1, x_2,\ldots,x_k$ such that $(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_k)$ is a burning sequence of $G$. It has been shown that the graph burning problem is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Ruiting Zhang , Yingying Yu , Huiqing Liu

For a graph $G$, the signless Laplacian Estrada index is defined as $SLEE(G)=\sum^{n}_{i=1}e^{q^{}_i}$,where $q_1, q_2, \dots, q_n$are the eigenvalues of the signless Laplacian matrix of $G$. In this paper, we first characterize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Hamid Reza Ellahi , Ramin Nasiri , Gholam Hossein Fath-Tabar , Ahmad Gholami

For a graph $G$ and for two distinct vertices $u$ and $v$, let $\kappa(u,v)$ be the maximum number of vertex-disjoint paths joining $u$ and $v$ in $G$. The average connectivity matrix of an $n$-vertex connected graph $G$, written…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Linh Nguyen , Suil O

For a Hermitian matrix $A$ of order $n$ with eigenvalues $\lambda_1(A)\ge \cdots\ge \lambda_n(A)$, define \[ \mathcal{E}_p^+(A)=\sum_{\lambda_i > 0} \lambda_i^p(A), \quad \mathcal{E}_p^-(A)=\sum_{\lambda_i<0} |\lambda_i(A)|^p,\] to be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Saieed Akbari , Hitesh Kumar , Bojan Mohar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

A uniformly random graph on $n$ vertices with a fixed degree sequence, obeying a $\gamma$ subpower law, is studied. It is shown that, for $\gamma>3$, in a subcritical phase with high probability the largest component size does not exceed…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-22 B. G. Pittel