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In this article the authors continue the discussion in \cite{ALM} about inverse problems for second order elliptic and hyperbolic equations on metric trees from boundary measurements. In the present paper we prove the identifiability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-29 S. A. Avdonin , A. Choque Rivero , G. Leugering , V. S. Mikhaylov

The \textit{eccentricity matrix} $\mathcal{E}(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is obtained from the distance matrix of $G$ by keeping the largest non-zero entries in each row and each column, and leaving zeros in the remaining ones. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Iswar Mahato , M. Rajesh Kannan

Given a rooted tree $T$ with vertices $u_1,u_2,\ldots,u_n$, the level matrix $L(T)$ of $T$ is the $n \times n$ matrix for which the $(i,j)$-th entry is the absolute difference of the distances from the root to $v_i$ and $v_j$. This matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

We investigate the structure of trees that have greatest maximum eigenvalue among all trees with a given degree sequence. We show that in such an extremal tree the degree sequence is non-increasing with respect to an ordering of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-18 Tuerker Biyikoglu , Marc Hellmuth , Josef Leydold

We study the spectral Tur\'an problem for trees. To avoid limiting our perspective to specific families of trees, we parametrize trees in terms of their unique bipartition. We say $T \in \mathcal{T}_{m,l+1}^{\delta}$ if $T$ is a tree of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Dheer Noal Desai , Hemanshu Kaul , Bahareh Kudarzi

Let $G$ be an undirected graph on $n$ vertices and let $S(G)$ be the set of all $n \times n$ real symmetric matrices whose nonzero off-diagonal entries occur in exactly the positions corresponding to the edges of $G$. The inverse eigenvalue…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

Over some types of trees with a given number of vertices, which trees minimize or maximize the total number of subtrees or leaf containing subtrees are studied. Here are some of the main results:\ (1)\, Sharp upper bound on the total number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Shuchao Li , Shujing Wang

The inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph $G$ aims to find all possible spectra for matrices whose $(i,j)$-entry, for $i\neq j$, is nonzero precisely when $i$ is adjacent to $j$. In this work, the inverse eigenvalue problem is completely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Jephian C. -H. Lin , Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

The spectra of signed matrices have played a fundamental role in social sciences, graph theory, and control theory. In this work, we investigate the computational problems of identifying symmetric signings of matrices with natural spectral…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Charles Carlson , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Hsien-Chih Chang , Alexandra Kolla

Among all trees on $n$ vertices with a given degree sequence, how do we maximise or minimise the sum over all adjacent pairs of vertices $x$ and $y$ of $f(\mathrm{deg} x, \mathrm{deg} y)$? Here $f$ is a fixed symmetric function satisfying a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Ivan Damnjanović , Žarko Ranđelović

We consider the inverse eigenvalue problem for entanglement witnesses, which asks for a characterization of their possible spectra (or equivalently, of the possible spectra resulting from positive linear maps of matrices). We completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Nathaniel Johnston , Everett Patterson

Symplectic geometry plays an increasingly important role in mathematics, physics and applications, and naturally gives rise to interesting matrix families and properties. One of these is the notion of symplectic eigenvalues, whose existence…

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The inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph $G$ is the problem of characterizing all lists of eigenvalues of real symmetric matrices whose off-diagonal pattern is prescribed by the adjacencies of $G$. The strong spectral property is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Jephian C. -H. Lin , Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

We say that a list of real numbers is "symmetrically realisable" if it is the spectrum of some (entrywise) nonnegative symmetric matrix. The Symmetric Nonnegative Inverse Eigenvalue Problem (SNIEP) is the problem of characterising all…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Richard Ellard , Helena Šmigoc

In this paper, we study the multiplicity of the Laplacian eigenvalues of trees. It is known that for trees, integer Laplacian eigenvalues larger than $1$ are simple and also the multiplicity of Laplacian eigenvalue $1$ has been well studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-25 S. Akbari , E. R. van Dam , M. H. Fakharan

A generalized Fourier analysis on arbitrary graphs calls for a detailed knowledge of the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian. Using the symmetries of the Cayley tree, we recursively construct the family of eigenvectors with exponentially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-31 Ayşe Erzan , Aslı Tuncer

Motivated by classic tree algorithms, in 1995 we designed a bottom-up $O(n)$ algorithm to compute the determinant of a tree's adjacency matrix $A$. In 2010 an $O(n)$ algorithm was found for constructing a diagonal matrix congruent to $A +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 David P. Jacobs , Vilmar Trevisan

Characterized are all simple undirected graphs $G$ such that any real symmetric matrix that has graph $G$ has no eigenvalues of multiplicity more than 2. All such graphs are partial 2-trees (and this follows from a result for rather general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles R. Johnson , Raphael Loewy , Paul Anthony Smith

For a graph $G$, let $\lambda_1(G)$ and $\lambda_2(G)$ denote the largest and the second largest adjacency eigenvalue of $G$. The sum $\lambda_1(G) + \lambda_2(G)$ is called the \emph{spectral sum} of $G$. We investigate the spectral sum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Hitesh Kumar , Bojan Mohar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Hanmeng Zhan

Let $T$ be a tree with a given adjacency eigenvalue $\lambda$. In this paper, by using the $\lambda$-minimal trees, we determine the structure of trees with a given multiplicity of the eigenvalue $\lambda$. Furthermore, we consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Asghar Bahmani , Dariush Kiani