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We prove upper and lower bounds for the number of zeroes of linear combinations of Schr\"odinger eigenfunctions on metric (quantum) graphs. These bounds are distinct from both the interval and manifolds. We complement these bounds by giving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ram Band , Philippe Charron

The edge-Wiener index $W_e(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is the sum of distances between all pairs of edges of $G$. A connected graph $G$ is said to be a cactus if each of its blocks is either a cycle or an edge. Let $\mathcal{G}_{n,t}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Siyan Liu , Rong-Xia Hao

A vertex subset of a graph is called a distance-$k$ independent set if the distance between any two of its distinct vertices is at least $k + 1$. For all $n,k \geq 1$, we determine the minimum possible number of inclusion-wise maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Dmitrii Taletskii

We study the multicolour discrepancy of spanning trees and Hamilton cycles in graphs. As our main result, we show that under very mild conditions, the $r$-colour spanning-tree discrepancy of a graph $G$ is equal, up to a constant, to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

The subgraph number of a vertex in a graph is defined as the number of connected subgraphs containing that vertex. The graph and its vertex which correspond to the minimum subgraph number among all graphs on $n$ vertices and $k$ cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Dinesh Pandey , Peruvemba Sundaram Ravi

The first and the second Zagreb eccentricity index of a graph $G$ are defined as $E_1(G)=\sum_{v\in V(G)}\varepsilon_{G}(v)^{2}$ and $E_2(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}\varepsilon_{G}(u)\varepsilon_{G}(v)$, respectively, where $\varepsilon_G(v)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Kexiang Xu , Kinkar Chandra Das , Sandi Klavžar , Huimin Li

We show that for every $\eta>0$ every sufficiently large $n$-vertex oriented graph D of minimum semidegree exceeding $(1 + \eta) k/2$ contains every balanced antidirected tree with $k$ edges and bounded maximum degree, if $k \ge \eta n$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Maya Stein , Camila Zárate-Guerén

The goal of this paper is to obtain quantitative results on the number and on the size of maximal independent sets and maximal matchings in several block-stable graph classes that satisfy a proper sub-criticality condition. In particular we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Michael Drmota , Lander Ramos , Clément Requilé , Juanjo Rué

We consider a hierarchy of graph invariants that naturally extends the spectral invariants defined by F\"urer (Lin. Alg. Appl. 2010) based on the angles formed by the set of standard basis vectors and their projections onto eigenspaces of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-06 V. Arvind , Frank Fuhlbrück , Johannes Köbler , Oleg Verbitsky

The Steiner $k$-eccentricity of a vertex in graph $G$ is the maximum Steiner distance over all $k$-subsets containing the vertex. %Some general properties of the Steiner 3-eccentricity of trees are given. Let $\mathbb{T}_n$ be the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Xin Liu

We find the maximum number of maximal independent sets in two families of graphs: all graphs with $n$ vertices and at most $r$ cycles, and all such graphs that are also connected. In addition, we characterize the extremal graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chee Ying Goh , Khee Meng Koh , Bruce E. Sagan , V. Vatter

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

Given a graph family $\mathbb{H}$, let ${\rm SPEX}(n,\mathbb{H}_{\rm sub})$ denote the set of $n$-vertex $\mathbb{H}$-subdivision-free graphs with the maximum spectral radius. In this paper, we investigate the problem of graph subdivision…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Wanting Sun , Guanghui Wang , Pingchuan Yang

A network can be analyzed at different topological scales, ranging from single nodes to motifs, communities, up to the complete structure. We propose a novel intermediate-level topological analysis that considers non-overlapping subgraphs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucas Antiqueira , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

This paper investigates topological indices for the greedy tree $\mathcal{T}_\mathscr{D}$ associated with a graphic degree sequence $\mathscr{D} = (d_1 \geqslant d_2 \geqslant \dots \geqslant d_n)$ of a tree. A fundamental challenge in the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Jasem Hamoud , Duaa Abdullah

In this paper, we discuss the Hamiltonicity of graphs in terms of Wiener index, hyper-Wiener index and Harary index of their quasi-complement or complement. Firstly, we give some sufficient conditions for an balanced bipartite graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Guidong Yu , Lifang Ren , Gaixiang Cai

It is an intriguing question to see what kind of information on the structure of an oriented graph $D$ one can obtain if $D$ does not contain a fixed oriented graph $H$ as a subgraph. The related question in the unoriented case has been an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Omid Amini , Simon Griffiths , Florian Huc

For a graph $G$ without isolated vertices, the inverse degree of a graph $G$ is defined as $ID(G)=\sum_{u\in V(G)}d(u)^{-1}$ where $d(u)$ is the number of vertices adjacent to the vertex $u$ in $G$. By replacing $-1$ by any non-zero real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Muhammad Kamran Jamil , Ioan Tomescu , Muhammad Imran

We investigate several related measures of peripherality and centrality for vertices and edges in networks, including the Mostar index which was recently introduced as a measure of peripherality for both edges and networks. We refute a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Jesse Geneson , Shen-Fu Tsai

Subgraphs reveal information about the geometry and functionalities of complex networks. For scale-free networks with unbounded degree fluctuations, we obtain the asymptotics of the number of times a small connected graph occurs as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Remco van der Hofstad , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Clara Stegehuis