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Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ with $n\geq25$. A $\{P_3,P_4,P_5\}$-factor is a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that every component of $H$ is isomorphic to an element of $\{P_3,P_4,P_5\}$. Nikiforov introduced the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Yuli Zhang , Sizhong Zhou

Let A(G) be the adjacency tensor (hypermatrix) of uniform hypergraph G. The maximum modulus of the eigenvalues of A(G) is called the spectral radius of G. In this paper, the conjecture of Fan et al. in [5] related to compare the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Liying Kang , Lele Liu , Liqun Qi , Xiying Yuan

Let $\tau(G)$ denote the spanning tree packing number of a graph $G$. Recently, Zhang and Fan [J. Graph Theory 112 (2) (2026) 128--144] posed the problem of finding a tight spectral radius condition for an $m$-edge-connected graph $G$ to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yongbin Gao , Ligong Wang

Let G be a graph of given order and mu(G) be the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. We give conditions on mu(G) that imply Hamiltonicity of G and of its complement.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-01 Miroslav Fiedler , Vladimir Nikiforov

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees of $G$. For any real $\alpha \in [0,1]$, Nikiforov defined the $A_\alpha$-matrix of a graph $G$ as $A_\alpha(G)=\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jiayu Lou , Ligong Wang , Ming Yuan

For a connected graph $G$ and $\alpha\in [0,1)$, the distance $\alpha$-spectral radius of $G$ is the spectral radius of the matrix $D_{\alpha}(G)$ defined as $D_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha T(G)+(1-\alpha)D(G)$, where $T(G)$ is a diagonal matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-30 H. Y. Guo , B. Zhou

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and spectral radius be the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix, denoted by $\mu(G)$. In this paper, we determine the unique graph with maximum spectral radius among all graphs of order $n$ without…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Xinru Yan , Xiaocong He , Lihua Feng , Weijun Liu

For a finite, simple, and undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges, and largest eigenvalue $\lambda$, Nikiforov introduced the degree deviation of $G$ as $s=\sum_{u\in V(G)}\left|d_G(u)-\frac{2m}{n}\right|$. Contributing to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Dieter Rautenbach , Florian Werner

Let $G$ be a simple, connected graph and let $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. If $D(G)$ is the diagonal matrix of the vertex degrees of $G$, then for every real $\alpha \in [0,1]$, the matrix $A_{\alpha}(G)$ is defined as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Mainak Basunia , Iswar Mahato , M. Rajesh Kannan

This paper investigates spectral properties of the deformed Laplacian matrix, which merges the Laplacian and signless Laplacian matrices of a graph through a one-parameter family of matrices. We present general results on the eigenvalues of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Roberto C. Díaz , Elismar R. Oliveira , Vilmar Trevisan

The eccentricity matrix of a simple connected graph G is obtained from the distance matrix of G by retaining the largest non-zero distance in each row and column, and the remaining entries are defined to be zero. A bi-block graph is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 T. Divyadevi , I. Jeyaraman

For a connected graph, the distance spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its distance matrix, and the distance energy is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of its distance matrix. We establish lower and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Bo Zhou , Aleksandar Ilic

For any graph $G$, let $t(G)$ be the number of spanning trees of $G$, $L(G)$ be the line graph of $G$ and for any non-negative integer $r$, $S_r(G)$ be the graph obtained from $G$ by replacing each edge $e$ by a path of length $r+1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Fengming Dong , Weigen Yan

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph of order $n$ and $D(G)$ be the distance matrix of $G.$ Suppose that $\lambda_{1}(D(G))\geq\lambda_{2}(D(G))\geq\cdots\geq\lambda_{n}(D(G))$ are the distance spectrum of $G$. A graph $G$ is said to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Ruifang Liu , Jie Xue , Litao Guo

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$. A $\{P_{2},C_{3},P_{5},\mathcal{T}(3)\}$-factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph of $G$ such that each component is isomorphic to a member in $\{P_{2},C_{3},P_{5},\mathcal{T}(3)\}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Xianglong Zhang , Lihua You

For each integer k >= 2, we determine a sharp bound on mad(G) such that V(G) can be partitioned into sets I and F_k, where I is an independent set and G[F_k] is a forest in which each component has at most k vertices. For each k we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Daniel W. Cranston , Matthew P. Yancey

For a graph $G$, its spectral radius $\rho(G)$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a finite family of graphs with $\min_{F\in \mathcal{F}}\chi(F)=r+1\geq3$, where $\chi(F)$ is the chromatic number of $F$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Wenqian Zhang

For a graph $G$, let $\tau(G)$ denote the number of spanning trees. We show that for every fixed $0 < c < 1/4$, the number of distinct values of $\tau(G)$, as $G$ ranges over simple graphs on $n$ vertices, is at least $\exp(c n \log n)$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Vishesh Jain

The underlying graph $G$ of a symmetric matrix $M=(m_{ij})\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is the graph with vertex set $\{v_1,\ldots,v_n\}$ such that a pair $\{v_i,v_j\}$ with $i\neq j$ is an edge if and only if $m_{ij}\neq 0$. Given a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Luiz Emilio Allem , Carlos Hoppen , Lucas Siviero Sibemberg

For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Vandhana. C , S. Hima Bindhu , P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan , B. Supraja