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A matching is a set of edges in a graph with no common endpoint. A matching M is called acyclic if the induced subgraph on the endpoints of the edges in M is acyclic. Given a graph G and an integer k, Acyclic Matching Problem seeks for an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sahab Hajebi , Ramin Javadi

A graph $G$ is a $(\Pi_A,\Pi_B)$-graph if $V(G)$ can be bipartitioned into $A$ and $B$ such that $G[A]$ satisfies property $\Pi_A$ and $G[B]$ satisfies property $\Pi_B$. The $(\Pi_{A},\Pi_{B})$-Recognition problem is to recognize whether a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Iyad Kanj , Christian Komusiewicz , Manuel Sorge , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The utility of a matrix satisfying the Strong Spectral Property has been well established particularly in connection with the inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs. More recently the class of graphs in which all associated symmetric…

Given a graph $H$, a graph $G$ is $H$-free if $G$ does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph. For a positive real number $t$, a non-complete graph $G$ is said to be $t$-tough if for every vertex cut $S$ of $G$, the ratio of $|S|$ to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Leyou Xu , Chengli Li , Bo Zhou

Let $N(X)$ be the Laplacian matrix of a directed graph obtained from the edge adjacency matrix of a graph $X.$ In this work, we study the bipartiteness property of the graph with the help of $N(X).$ We computed the spectrum of the edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Shivani Chauhan , A. Satyanarayana Reddy

Graph parameters such as the clique number, the chromatic number, and the independence number are central in many areas, ranging from computer networks to linguistics to computational neuroscience to social networks. In particular, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Fabian Frei , Edith Hemaspaandra , Jörg Rothe

A graph $X$ is said to be a pattern polynomial graph if its adjacency algebra is a coherent algebra. In this study we will find a necessary and sufficient condition for a graph to be a pattern polynomial graph. Some of the properties of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-24 A. Satyanarayana Reddy , Shashank K Mehta

In this paper, we introduce a class of graphs which we call average hereditary graphs. Many graphs that occur in the usual graph theory applications belong to this class of graphs. Many popular types of graphs fall under this class, such as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Syed Mujtaba Hassan , Shahid Hussain

In this article we introduce a definition of k-uniform thresholds hypergraphs through a binary sequence, a natural extension of the classical definition for thresholds graphs. We characterize some of its eigenvalues and multiplicities by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Miriam Abdón , Lucas Portugal , Renata Del-Vecchio , Renata de Freitas

In recent work by Johnson et al. (2022), a framework was described for the study of graph problems over classes specified by omitting each of a finite set of graphs as subgraphs. If a problem falls into the framework then its computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tala Eagling-Vose , Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma , Siani Smith

Local Irregularity Conjecture states that every simple connected graph, except special cacti, can be decomposed into at most three locally irregular graphs, i.e., graphs in which adjacent vertices have different degrees. The connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Igor Grzelec , Alfréd Onderko , Mariusz Woźniak

Parameterized algorithms are a very useful tool for dealing with NP-hard problems on graphs. Yet, to properly utilize parameterized algorithms it is necessary to choose the right parameter based on the type of problem and properties of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Robert Ganian

A graph is called $k$-extendable if each $k$-matching can be extended to a perfect matching. We give spectral conditions for the $k$-extendability of graphs and bipartite graphs using Tutte-type and Hall-type structural characterizations.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Yuke Zhang , Edwin R. van Dam

Motivated by a relaxed notion of the celebrated Hamiltonian cycle, this paper investigates its variant, parity Hamiltonian cycle (PHC): A PHC of a graph is a closed walk which visits every vertex an odd number of times, where we remark that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Hiroshi Nishiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yukiko Yamauchi , Shuji Kijima , Masafumi Yamashita

It is well known that a graph is bipartite if and only if the spectrum of its adjacency matrix is symmetric. In the present paper, this assertion is dissected into three separate matrix results of wider scope, which are extended also to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-11 V. Nikiforov

This paper shows NP-completeness for finding Hamiltonian cycles in induced subgraphs of the dual graphs of semi-regular tessilations. It also shows NP-hardness for a new, wide class of graphs called augmented square grids. This work follows…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Divya Gopinath , Rohan Kodialam , Kevin Lu , Jayson Lynch , Santiago Ospina

Signed graphs are graphs whose edges get a sign $+1$ or $-1$ (the signature). Signed graphs can be studied by means of graph matrices extended to signed graphs in a natural way. Recently, the spectra of signed graphs have attracted much…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Francesco Belardo , Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Jianfeng Wang

This paper establishes an upper bound on the number of generalized cospectral mates of simple graphs, where the generalized spectrum consists of the spectrum of a graph and its complement. Moving beyond the classical problem of identifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Muhammad Raza , Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas

Characterizing graphs by their spectra is an important topic in spectral graph theory, which has attracted a lot of attention of researchers in recent years. It is generally very hard and challenging to show a given graph to be determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Wei Wang , Fenjin Liu , Wei Wang

In this article we investigate normalized adjacency eigenvalues (simply normalized eigenvalues) and normalized adjacency energy of connected threshold graphs. A threshold graph can always be represented as a unique binary string. Certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Anirban Banerjee , Ranjit Mehatari