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The graph isomorphism problem looks deceptively simple, but although polynomial-time algorithms exist for certain types of graphs such as planar graphs and graphs with bounded degree or eigenvalue multiplicity, its complexity class is still…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Stefan Klus , Patrick Gelß

Centrality measures are used in network science to identify the most important vertices for transmission of information and dynamics on a graph. One of these measures, introduced by Estrada and collaborators, is the $\beta$-subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Francesco Ballini , Nikita Deniskin

Let $G$ be a group. We define the coprime graph of subgroups of $G$, denoted by $\mathcal P(G)$, is a graph whose vertex set is the set of all proper subgroups of $G$, and two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if the order of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-08 R. Rajkumar , P. Devi

It is known that a graph isomorphism testing algorithm is polynomially equivalent to a detecting of a graph non-trivial automorphism algorithm. The polynomiality of the latter algorithm, is obtained by consideration of symmetry properties…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksandr Golubchik

Motivated by discrete Laplacian differential operators with various accuracy orders in numerical analysis, we introduce new matrices attached to a simple graph that can be considered graph Laplacians with higher accuracy. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Mary Yoon

We examine the capacity of the complementarity spectrum to distinguish non-isomorphic digraphs. We focus on the seven families with exactly three complementarity eigenvalues. Our findings reveal that in some, but not all families, any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Diego Bravo , Florencia Cubría , Marcelo Fiori , Gustavo Rama

We study Subgraph Isomorphism on graph classes defined by a fixed forbidden graph. Although there are several ways for forbidding a graph, we observe that it is reasonable to focus on the minor relation since other well-known relations lead…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hans L. Bodlaender , Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yoshio Okamoto , Yota Otachi , Tom C. van der Zanden

A retract of a graph $\Gamma$ is an induced subgraph $\Psi$ of $\Gamma$ such that there exists a homomorphism from $\Gamma$ to $\Psi$ whose restriction to $\Psi$ is the identity map. A graph is a core if it has no nontrivial retracts. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Ricky Rotheram , Sanming Zhou

A graph is called a chain graph if it is bipartite and the neighborhoods of the vertices in each color class form a chain with respect to inclusion. Alazemi, Andeli\'c and Simi\'c conjectured that no chain graph shares a non-zero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Ebrahim Ghorbani

A graph drawing in the plane is called an almost embedding if the images of any two non-adjacent simplices (i.e. vertices or edges) are disjoint. Almost embeddings (more precisely, their higher-dimensional analogues) naturally appear in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 E. Alkin , A. Miroshnikov , A. Skopenkov

This study explores the relationship between hypergraph automorphisms and the spectral properties of matrices associated with hypergraphs. For an automorphism $f$, an \( f \)-compatible matrices capture aspects of the symmetry, represented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Anirban Banerjee , Samiron Parui

We consider complete graphs with edge weights and/or node weights taking values in some set. In the first part of this paper, we show that a large number of graphs are completely determined, up to isomorphism, by the distribution of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

A vertex with neighbours of degrees $d_1 \geq ... \geq d_r$ has {\em vertex type} $(d_1, ..., d_r)$. A graph is {\em vertex-oblique} if each vertex has a distinct vertex-type. While no graph can have distinct degrees, Schreyer, Walther and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alastair Farrugia

A basic fact in spectral graph theory is that the number of connected components in an undirected graph is equal to the multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero in the Laplacian matrix of the graph. In particular, the graph is disconnected if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-24 James R. Lee , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

We consider sequences of graphs and define various notions of convergence related to these sequences: ``left convergence'' defined in terms of the densities of homomorphisms from small graphs into the graphs of the sequence, and ``right…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Borgs , J. T. Chayes , L. Lovasz , V. T. Sos , K. Vesztergombi

We consider isomorphism of controllable graphs and cospectrality of distance-regularized graphs (which are known to be distance-regular or distance-biregular) in relation to logical definability. While most characterizations of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Aida Abiad , Anuj Dawar , Octavio B. Zapata-Fonseca

We propose an approach to graph sparsification based on the idea of preserving the smallest $k$ eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Graph Laplacian. This is motivated by the fact that small eigenvalues and their associated eigenvectors tend…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Catherine Babecki , Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

It is well known that the spectrum and the Smith normal form of a matrix can be computed in polynomial time. Thus, it is interesting to explore how good are these parameters for distinguishing graphs. This is relevant since it is related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Carlos A. Alfaro , Ralihe R. Villagrán , Octavio Zapata

Godsil (1985) defined a graph to be invertible if it has a non-singular adjacency matrix whose inverse is diagonally similar to a nonnegative integral matrix; the graph defined by the last matrix is then the inverse of the original graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Sona Pavlikova , Daniel Sevcovic

Several researchers have recently explored various graph parameters that can or cannot be characterized by the spectrum of a matrix associated with a graph. In this paper we show that several NP-hard zero forcing numbers are not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Aida Abiad , Boris Brimkov , Jane Breen , Thomas R. Cameron , Himanshu Gupta , Ralihe R. Villagrán