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Let $G$ be a connected graph with order $n$ and size $m$. Let $D(G)$ and $Tr(G)$ be the distance matrix and diagonal matrix with vertex transmissions of $G$, respectively. For any real $\alpha\in[0,1]$, the generalized distance matrix…

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

Distance matrices of graphs were introduced by Graham and Pollack in 1971 to study a problem in communications. Since then, there has been extensive research on the distance matrices of graphs -- a 2014 survey by Aouchiche and Hansen on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Leslie Hogben , Carolyn Reinhart

Let $D(G)$ denote the distance matrix of a connected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. The distance spectral gap of a graph $G$ is defined as $\delta_{D^G} = \rho_1 - \rho_2$, where $\rho_1$ and $\rho_2$ represent the largest and second largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Haritha T , Chithra A.

A complex unit gain graph ($ \mathbb{T} $-gain graph), $ \Phi=(G, \varphi) $ is a graph where the function $ \varphi $ assigns a unit complex number to each orientation of an edge of $ G $, and its inverse is assigned to the opposite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Aniruddha Samanta , Deepshikha

The Laplacian matrix of a simple graph is the difference of the diagonal matrix of vertex degree and the (0,1) adjacency matrix. In the past decades, the Laplacian spectrum has received much more and more attention, since it has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-31 Xiao-Dong Zhang

The generalized reciprocal distance matrix $RD_{\alpha}(G)$ was defined as $RD_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha RT(G)+(1-\alpha)RD(G),\quad 0\leq \alpha \leq 1.$ Let $\lambda_{1}(RD_{\alpha}(G))\geq \lambda_{2}(RD_{\alpha}(G))\geq \cdots \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Hechao Liu , Yufei Huang

Suppose that $G$ is a connected simple graph with the vertex set $V( G ) = \{ v_1,v_2,\cdots ,v_n \} $. Let $d( v_i,v_j ) $ be the distance between $v_i$ and $v_j$. Then the distance matrix of $G$ is $D( G ) =( d_{ij} )_{n\times n}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Xu Chen , Guoping Wang

Let $G$ be a simple undirected connected graph with the Harary matrix $RD(G)$, which is also called the reciprocal distance matrix of $G$. The reciprocal distance signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ is $RQ(G)=RT(G)+RD(G)$, where $RT(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Gui-Xian Tian , Mei-Jiao Cheng , Shu-Yu Cui

Let G be a graph on n vertices. The Laplacian matrix of G, denoted by L(G), is defined as L(G) = D(G) - A(G), where A(G) is the adjacency matrix of G and D(G) is the diagonal matrix of the vertex degrees of G. A graph G is said to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Anderson Fernandes Novanta , Carla S. Oliveira , Leonardo S. de Lima

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

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph of order $n$ and $\partial(G)$ is the spectral radius of the distance matrix $D(G)$ of $G$. The transmission $D_i$ of vertex $i$ is the $i$-th row sum of $D(G)$. Denote by $D_{\max}(G)$ the maximum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Jingfen Lan , Lele Liu

Let $D(G)$ and $D^Q(G)= Diag(Tr) + D(G)$ be the distance matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of a simple strongly connected digraph $G$, respectively, where $Diag(Tr)=\textrm{diag}(D_1,D_2,$ $\ldots,D_n)$ be the diagonal matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Weige Xi , Wasin So , Ligong Wang

We introduce a natural notion of mean (or average) distance in the context of compact metric graphs, and study its relation to geometric properties of the graph. We show that it exhibits a striking number of parallels to the reciprocal of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Luís N. Baptista , James B. Kennedy , Delio Mugnolo

Let $T$ be a tree with $n$ vertices. To each edge of $T$, we assign a weight which is a positive definite matrix of some fixed order, say, $s$. Let $D_{ij}$ denote the sum of all the weights lying in the path connecting the vertices $i$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Balaji Ramamurthy , Ravindra Bapat , Shivani Goel

The spectral excess theorem states that, in a regular graph G, the average excess, which is the mean of the numbers of vertices at maximum distance from a vertex, is bounded above by the spectral excess (a number that is computed by using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Edwin R. van Dam , Miquel Angel Fiol

For a simple connected graph $ G $ of order $ n $, the normalized Laplacian is a square matrix of order $ n $, defined as $\mathcal{L}(G)= D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}}L(G)D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}}$, where $ D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}} $ is the diagonal matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Bilal A. Rather , S. Pirzada , T. A. Chishti , Ahmad M. Alghamdi

The reciprocal distance Laplacian matrix of a connected graph $G$ is defined as $RD^L(G)=RT(G)-RD(G)$, where $RT(G)$ is the diagonal matrix of reciprocal distance degrees and $RD(G)$ is the Harary matrix. Since $RD^L(G)$ is a real symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-30 S. Pirzada , Saleem Khan

For a connected graph $G$ and $\alpha\in [0,1)$, the distance $\alpha$-spectral radius of $G$ is the spectral radius of the matrix $D_{\alpha}(G)$ defined as $D_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha T(G)+(1-\alpha)D(G)$, where $T(G)$ is a diagonal matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-30 H. Y. Guo , B. Zhou

We introduce the concept of distance mean-regular graph, which can be seen as a generalization of both vertex-transitive and distance-regular graphs. Let $\Gamma$ be a graph with vertex set $V$, diameter $D$, adjacency matrix $A$, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-18 V. Diego , M. A. Fiol

Let $G$ be a connected graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$. The distance matrix $D(G)$ of $G$ has rows and columns indexed by $V(G)$ with $uv$-entry equal to the distance $\mathrm{dist}(u,v)$ which is the number of edges in a shortest path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Carlos A. Alfaro , Octavio Zapata