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We consider the spectral gap of a uniformly chosen random $(d_1,d_2)$-biregular bipartite graph $G$ with $|V_1|=n, |V_2|=m$, where $d_1,d_2$ could possibly grow with $n$ and $m$. Let $A$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. Under the assumption…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Yizhe Zhu

Homomorphism is a key mapping technique between graphs that preserves their structure. Given a graph and a pattern, the subgraph homomorphism problem involves finding a mapping from the pattern to the graph, ensuring that adjacent vertices…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuyang Guo , Wenjin Xie , Ping Lu , Ting Deng , Richong Zhang , Jianxin Li , Xiangping Huang , Zhongyi Liu

The Moore bound constitutes both an upper bound on the order of a graph of maximum degree $d$ and diameter $D=k$ and a lower bound on the order of a graph of minimum degree $d$ and odd girth $g=2k+1$. Graphs missing or exceeding the Moore…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Charles Delorme , Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio

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

Regular and distance-regular characterizations of general graphs are well-known. In particular, the spectral excess theorem states that a connected graph G is distance-regular if and only if its spectral excess (a number that can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 A. Abiad , C. Dalfò , M. A. Fiol

This paper addresses the challenge of spectral analysis and structural investigation for graphs that are not distance-regular, where computing the spectrum using standard methods based on equitable and orbit partitions can be complex. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Ali Zafari , Saeid Alikhani

We define a graph to be $S$-regular if it contains an equitable partition given by a matrix $S$. These graphs are generalizations of both regular and bipartite, biregular graphs. An $S$-regular matrix is defined then as a matrix on an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Matthew B. Crawford , David J. Marchette , William Maxwell , Samuel S. Mendelson

An ordered hypergraph is a hypergraph whose vertex set is linearly ordered, and a convex geometric hypergraph is a hypergraph whose vertex set is cyclically ordered. Extremal problems for ordered and convex geometric graphs have a rich…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Zoltán Füredi , Tao Jiang , Alexandr Kostochka , Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraëte

In this paper, we focus on the class of complete $S$-partite graphs, for $S$ an undirected graph possibly with self-loops, and address the problem of finding largest $2$-regular subgraphs of these graphs, which can be formulated as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yiyang Jiang , Xudong Chen

For a connected graph $G$, let $\mu(G)$ denote the distance spectral radius of $G$. A matching in a graph $G$ is a set of disjoint edges of $G$. The maximum size of a matching in $G$ is called the matching number of $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Zengzhao Xu , Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

Several new spectral properties of the normalized Laplacian defined for oriented hypergraphs are shown. The eigenvalue $1$ and the case of duplicate vertices are discussed; two Courant nodal domain theorems are established; new quantities…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Raffaella Mulas , Dong Zhang

Typically, graph structures are represented by one of three different matrices: the adjacency matrix, the unnormalised and the normalised graph Laplacian matrices. The spectral (eigenvalue) properties of these different matrices are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-27 J. F. Lutzeyer , A. T. Walden

In this note, we show that the norm of an $n\times n$ random jointly exchangeable matrix with zero diagonal can be estimated in terms of the norm of its $n/2\times n/2$ submatrix located in the top right corner. As a consequence, we prove a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Konstantin Tikhomirov , Pierre Youssef

The hypergraph Moore bound is an elegant statement that characterizes the extremal trade-off between the girth - the number of hyperedges in the smallest cycle or even cover (a subhypergraph with all degrees even) and size - the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari , Sidhanth Mohanty

Computing the diameter of a graph, i.e. the largest distance, is a fundamental problem that is central in fine-grained complexity. In undirected graphs, the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) yields a lower bound on the time vs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Amir Abboud , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ray Li , Virginia Vassilevska-Williams

The maximum number of vertices in a graph of maximum degree $\Delta\ge 3$ and fixed diameter $k\ge 2$ is upper bounded by $(1+o(1))(\Delta-1)^{k}$. If we restrict our graphs to certain classes, better upper bounds are known. For instance,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Eran Nevo , Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio , David R. Wood

It is well known that the spectral radius of a tree whose maximum degree is $D$ cannot exceed $2\sqrt{D-1}$. In this paper we derive similar bounds for arbitrary planar graphs and for graphs of bounded genus. It is proved that a the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-14 Zdenek Dvorak , Bojan Mohar

Let $m$ be a positive integer. Brualdi and Hoffman proposed the problem to determine the (connected) graphs with maximum spectral radius in a given graph class and they posed a conjecture for the class of graphs with given size $m$. After…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

This paper establishes new upper bounds for the sum of the $k$ largest eigenvalues of symmetric matrices. When applied to the adjacency matrix of a graph, our results improve upon a related bound due to Mohar {\bf [On the sum of k largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Shaowei Sun , Yaping Min , Kinkar Chandra Das

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is linear if every two edges intersect in at most one vertex. The $r$-expansion $F^{r}$ of a graph $F$ is the $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $F$ by enlarging each edge of $F$ with a vertex subset of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chuan-Ming She , Yi-Zheng Fan , Liying Kang , Yaoping Hou