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We consider the normalized Laplace operator for directed graphs with positive and negative edge weights. This generalization of the normalized Laplace operator for undirected graphs is used to characterize directed acyclic graphs. Moreover,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Frank Bauer

The signless Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$ is defined to be the sum of its adjacency matrix and degree diagonal matrix, and its eigenvalues are called $Q$-eigenvalues of $G$. A $Q$-eigenvalue of a graph $G$ is called a $Q$-main eigenvalue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Shuchao Li , Xue Yang

We establish a sharp lower bound on the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a metric graph equipped with natural (i.e., continuity and Kirchhoff) vertex conditions in terms of the diameter and the total length of the graph.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-04 J. B. Kennedy

In this paper, we characterize all graphs with eigenvectors of the signless Laplacian and adjacency matrices with components equal to $\{- 1, 0, 1\}.$ We extend the graph parameter max $k$-cut to square matrices and prove a general sharp…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Jorge Alencar , Leonardo de Lima , Vladimir Nikiforov

We undertake a systematic investigation of the maxima and minima of the eigenfunctions associated with the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a metric graph equipped with standard (continuity--Kirchhoff) vertex conditions. This…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-05 James B. Kennedy , Jonathan Rohleder

We introduce and study a generalization of conformal rigidity for graphs. A graph is $k$-conformally rigid if the uniform edge weights simultaneously maximize the sum of the $k$ smallest nontrivial Laplacian eigenvalues and minimize the sum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Henrique Assumpção , Gabriel Coutinho , Chris Godsil

We present sharp inequalities relating the number of vertices, edges, and triangles of a graph to the smallest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix and the largest eigenvalue of its Laplacian.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

If $G$ is a graph, its Laplacian is the difference between diagonal matrix of its vertex degrees and its adjacency matrix. A one-edge connection of two graphs $G_{1}$ and $G_{2}$ is a graph $G=G_{1}\odot G_{2}$ with $V(G)=V(G_{1})\cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Mohammad Habibi , Masoumeh Farkhondeh

In this note, we present a structural description of certain connected cographs having $k \geq 2$ main signless Laplacian eigenvalues. This result allows us to characterize the cographs which are quasi-threshold graphs with two main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Átila Jones , Vilmar Trevisan , Cybele T. M. Vinagre

We show that arising out of noncmmutatve geometry is a natural family of {\em edge Laplacians} on the edges of a graph. The family includes a canonical edge Laplacian associated to the graph, extending the usual graph Laplacian on vertices,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Shahn Majid

Quantum graphs have attracted attention from mathematicians for some time. A quantum graph is defined by having a Laplacian on each edge of a metric graph and imposing boundary conditions at the vertices to get an eigenvalue problem. A…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mats-Erik Pistol , Pavel Kurasov

The Helmholtzian matrix of a graph $G=(V(G),E(G))$ is a graph-theoretic analogue of the vector Laplacian (or Helmholtz operator) [S. Li, L. Lu, J.F. Wang, A graph discretization of vector Laplacian, 379 (2026) 446--460]. Motivated by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Lu Lu , Yongtang Shi , Zoran Stanić , Jianfeng Wang , Yi Wang

Given a graph Laplacian with positively and negatively weighted edges we are interested in characterizing the set of weights that give a particular spectral index, i.e.~give a prescribed number of positive, zero, and negative eigenvalues.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jared Bronski , Lee DeVille , K. Paolina Koutsaki

An oriented hypergraph is a hypergraph where each vertex-edge incidence is given a label of $+1$ or $-1$. The adjacency and Laplacian eigenvalues of an oriented hypergraph are studied. Eigenvalue bounds for both the adjacency and Laplacian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Nathan Reff

We consider partitions of a finite, simple, weighted graph that minimize a spectral energy functional, defined to be the maximum of the first eigenvalues on each component. These partitions are minimized with respect to a parameter that we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Connor Menzel

The graph partition problem is the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into a fixed number of sets of given sizes such that the sum of weights of edges joining different sets is optimized. In this paper we simplify a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

We derive upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Kirchhoff Laplacian on a compact metric graph depending on the graph's genus g. These bounds can be further improved if $g = 0$, i.e. if the metric graph is planar. Our results are based on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Marvin Plümer

A signed graph is one that features two types of edges: positive and negative. Balanced signed graphs are those in which all cycles contain an even number of positive edges. In the adjacency matrix of a signed graph, entries can be $0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labeled either positive or negative. Corresponding to the two signed distance matrices defined for signed graphs, we define two signed distance laplacian matrices. We characterize balance in signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Roshni T Roy , K A Germina , K Shahul Hameed , Thomas Zaslavsky

A complex unit gain graph ($\mathbb{T}$-gain graph), $\Phi = (G, \varphi)$ is a graph where the function $\varphi$ assigns a unit complex number to each orientation of an edge of $G$, and its inverse is assigned to the opposite orientation.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-11 M. Rajesh Kannan , Navish Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada