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Signed graphs are an emergent way of representing data in a variety of contexts where antagonistic interactions exist. These include data from biological, ecological, and social systems. Here we propose the concept of communicability for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Ernesto Estrada

A signed graph $G$ is a graph where each edge is assigned a + (positive edge) or a - (negative edge). The signed degree of a vertex $v$ in a signed graph, denoted by $sdeg(v)$, is the number of positive edges incident to $v$ subtracted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Alvaro Carbonero , Janelle Domantay , Karen Guthrie

A signed graph is a pair $(G,\sigma)$, where $G$ is a graph and $\sigma: E(G)\rightarrow \{-, +\}$, called signature, is an assignment of signs to the edges. Given a signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ with no negative loops, a balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Xiaolan Hu , Luis Kuffner , Jiaao Li , Reza Naserasr , Lujia Wang , Zhouningxin Wang , Xiaowei Yu

A homomorphism of a signed graph $(G, \sigma)$ to $(H, \pi)$ is a mapping of vertices and edges of $G$ to (respectively) vertices and edges of $H$ such that adjacencies, incidences and the product of signs of closed walks are preserved.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Reza Naserasr , Riste Škrekovski , Zhouningxin Wang , Rongxing Xu

Correspondence homomorphisms are both a generalization of standard homomorphisms and a generalization of correspondence colourings. For a fixed target graph $H$, the problem is to decide whether an input graph $G$, with each edge labeled by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Tomas Feder , Pavol Hell

The nullity of a graph is the multiplicity of the eigenvalues zero in its spectrum. A signed graph is a graph with a sign attached to each of its edges. In this paper, we obtain the coefficient theorem of the characteristic polynomial of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Yu Liu , Lhua You

We study "positive" graphs that have a nonnegative homomorphism number into every edge-weighted graph (where the edgeweights may be negative). We conjecture that all positive graphs can be obtained by taking two copies of an arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Omar Antolín Camarena , Endre Csóka , Tamás Hubai , Gábor Lippner , László Lovász

A signed graph (SG) is a graph where edges carry sign information attached to it. The sign of a network can be positive, negative, or neutral. A signed network is ubiquitous in a real-world network like social networks, citation networks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Shrabani Ghosh

In the branch of mathematics known as graph theory, graphs are considered as a set of points, called vertices, with connections between these points, called edges. The purpose of this paper is to study mappings between two graphs that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeffrey Beyerl , Cameron Sharpe

It is well known that a graph $G$ has a symmetric spectrum if and only if it is bipartite, a signed graph $\Gamma=(G,\sigma)$ has a symmetric spectrum if $G$ is bipartite. However, there exists a spectrally symmetric signed graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Deqiong Li , Qiongxiang Huang

A signed graph is a graph where the edges are assigned labels of either "$+$" or "$-$". The sign of a cycle in the graph is the product of the signs of its edges. We equip each signed complete graph with a vector whose entries are the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Alex Schaefer

Let $G$ be a graph and $A$ be its adjacency matrix. A graph $G$ is invertible if its adjacency matrix $A$ is invertible and the inverse of $G$ is a weighted graph with adjacency matrix $A^{-1}$. A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Isaiah Osborne , Dong Ye

A signed graph is a pair $(G,\Sigma)$, where $G=(V,E)$ is a graph (in which parallel edges are permitted, but loops are not) with $V=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and $\Sigma\subseteq E$. The edges in $\Sigma$ are called odd and the other edges of $E$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Marina Arav , Frank J. Hall , Zhongshan Li , Hein van der Holst

We extend the notion of graph homomorphism to cellularly embedded graphs (maps) by designing operations on vertices and edges that respect the surface topology; we thus obtain the first definition of map homomorphism that preserves both the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Delia Garijo , Andrew Goodall , Lluís Vena

A graph $H$ is said to be positive if the homomorphism density $t_H(G)$ is non-negative for all weighted graphs $G$. The positive graph conjecture proposes a characterisation of such graphs, saying that a graph is positive if and only if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 David Conlon , Joonkyung Lee , Leo Versteegen

The line graph of a graph with signed edges carries vertex signs. A vertex-signed graph is consistent if every circle (cycle, circuit) has positive vertex-sign product. Acharya, Acharya, and Sinha recently characterized line-consistent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Daniel C. Slilaty , Thomas Zaslavsky

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is a function from the vertices of G to the vertices of H that preserves edges. A homomorphism is surjective if it uses all of the vertices of H and it is a compaction if it uses all of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Jacob Focke , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Stanislav Zivny

The set D of distinct signed degrees of the vertices in a signed graph G is called its signed degree set. In this paper, we prove that every non-empty set of positive (negative) integers is the signed degree set of some connected signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pirzada , T. A. Naikoo , F. A. Dar

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are given (-1,+1) weights. In such a graph, the sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges. A signed graph is called balanced if its adjacency matrix is similar to the adjacency matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Devlin Mallory , Abigail Raz , Christino Tamon , Thomas Zaslavsky

A graph homomorphism is a vertex map which carries edges from a source graph to edges in a target graph. The instances of the Weighted Maximum H-Colourable Subgraph problem (MAX H-COL) are edge-weighted graphs G and the objective is to find…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Robert Engström , Tommy Färnqvist , Peter Jonsson , Johan Thapper