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Partially answering a question of Paul Seymour, we obtain a sufficient eigenvalue condition for the existence of $k$ edge-disjoint spanning trees in a regular graph, when $k\in \{2,3\}$. More precisely, we show that if the second largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Wiseley Wong

From Alon and Boppana, and Serre, we know that for any given integer $k\geq 3$ and real number $\lambda<2\sqrt{k-1}$, there are finitely many $k$-regular graphs whose second largest eigenvalue is at most $\lambda$. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Hiroshi Nozaki , Jason R. Vermette

We characterize the simple connected graphs with the second largest eigenvalue less than 1/2, which consists of 13 classes of specific graphs. These 13 classes hint that $c_{2}\in [1/2, \sqrt{2+\sqrt{5}}]$, where $c_2$ is the minimum real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Xiaoxia Wu , Jianguo Qian , Haigen Peng

In this paper, we will give a structure theory for signed graphs with fixed smallest eigenvalue and investigate signed graphs with smallest eigenvalue greater than $-1-\sqrt{2}$. Given a real number $\lambda\leq -1$, we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jack H. Koolen , Jing-Yuan Liu , Qianqian Yang , Meng-Yue Cao

An edge uv in a graph \Gamma\ is directionally 2-signed (or, (2,d)-signed) by an ordered pair (a,b), a,b in {+,-}, if the label l(uv) = (a,b) from u to v, and l(vu) = (b,a) from v to u. Directionally 2-signed graphs are equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-18 E. Sampathkumar , M. A. Sriraj , Thomas Zaslavsky

Expander graphs have many interesting applications in communication networks and other areas, and thus these graphs have been extensively studied in theoretic computer sciences and in applied mathematics. In this paper, we use reversible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Xiwang Cao

The problem of characterizing graphs with a prescribed number of main eigenvalues is a long-standing problem in spectral graph theory. Although some constructions are known, only a few produce infinite families of simple connected graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sakshi Jain , Y. M. Borse , R. Barabde

We prove that there exist infinite families of regular bipartite Ramanujan graphs of every degree bigger than 2. We do this by proving a variant of a conjecture of Bilu and Linial about the existence of good 2-lifts of every graph. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Adam Marcus , Daniel A. Spielman , Nikhil Srivastava

We give a combinatorial characterization of graphs whose normalized Laplacian has three distinct eigenvalues. Strongly regular graphs and complete bipartite graphs are examples of such graphs, but we also construct more exotic families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Edwin R. van Dam , Gholamreza Omidi

Let $\gamma'_s(G)$ be the signed edge domination number of G. In 2006, Xu conjectured that: for any $2$-connected graph G of order $ n (n \geq 2),$ $\gamma'_s(G)\geq 1$. In this article we show that this conjecture is not true. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Saeed Akbari , Sadegh Bolouki , Pooya Hatami , Milad Siami

Let m and r be two integers. Let G be a connected r-regular graph of order n and k an integer depending on m and r. For even kn, we find a best upper bound (in terms of r and m) on the third largest eigenvalue that is sufficient to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Hongliang Lu

In this paper, we show that for given positive integer C, there are only finitely many distance-regular graphs with valency k at least three, diameter D at least six and k2/k<=C. This extends a conjecture of Bannai and Ito.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Jongyook Park , Jack H. Koolen , Greg Markowsky

In this paper, we characterize all connected graphs with exactly three distinct normalized Laplacian eigenvalues of which one is equal to $1$, determine all connected bipartite graphs with at least one vertex of degree $1$ having exactly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Xueyi Huang , Qiongxiang Huang

In this paper, we classify connected amply regular graphs with diameter $d \geq 4$ and parameters $(v, k, \lambda, \mu)$ satisfying $\mu = \frac{k-1}{2}$, where $k\geq 5$ is odd. We prove that such a graph must be exactly one of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Wei Jin , Jack H. Koolen , Chenhui Lv

A signless Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph $G$ is called a main signless Laplacian eigenvalue if it has an eigenvector the sum of whose entries is not equal to zero. In this paper, all connected bicyclic graphs with exactly two main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-10 He Huang , Hanyuan Deng

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

Recently Friedman proved Alon's conjecture for many families of d-regular graphs, namely that given any epsilon > 0 `most' graphs have their largest non-trivial eigenvalue at most 2 sqrt{d-1}+epsilon in absolute value; if the absolute value…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-15 Steven J. Miller , Tim Novikoff , Anthony Sabelli

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of the plain eigenvalue, the main-plain index and the refined spectrum of graphs. We focus on the graphs with two main and two plain eigenvalues and give some characterizations of them.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Sakander Hayat , Muhammad Javaid , Jack H. Koolen

In this paper, we determine the bound of the valency of the odd circulant graph which guarantees to be a Ramanujan graph for each fixed number of vertices. In almost of the cases, the bound coincides with the trivial bound, which comes from…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Miki Hirano , Kohei Katata , Yoshinori Yamasaki

We analyze graphs attaining the extreme values of various spectral indices in the class of all simple connected graphs, as well as in the class of graphs which are not complete multipartite graphs. We also present results on density of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Sona Pavlikova , Daniel Sevcovic , Jozef Siran