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We study oriented graphs whose Hermitian adjacency matrices of the second kind have few eigenvalues. We give a complete characterization of the oriented graphs with two distinct eigenvalues, showing that there are only four such graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Saieed Akbari , Jonathan Aloni , Maxwell Levit , Bojan Mohar , Steven Xia

An important facet of the inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs is to determine the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of a particular graph. We resolve this question for the join of a connected graph with a path. We then focus on…

A graph in a certain graph class is called minimizing if the least eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of the graph attains the minimum among all graphs in that class. Bell {\it et al.} have characterized the minimizing graphs in the class…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Yi Wang , Yi-Zheng Fan , Xiao-Xin Li , Fei-Fei Zhang

The smallest eigenvalues of (distance-j) Hamming graphs with distance parameter j at least half the length were completely determined by Brouwer et al. (2018). In the present work, we address the complementary regime, namely distances j…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yu Ning , Jack H. Koolen , Xiande Zhang

The traditional adjacency matrix of a mixed graph is not symmetric in general, hence its eigenvalues may be not real. To overcome this obstacle, several authors have recently defined and studied various Hermitian adjacency matrices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Mohammad Abudayah , Omar Alomari , Torsten Sander

Minimal separators in graphs are an important concept in algorithmic graph theory. In particular, many problems that are NP-hard for general graphs are known to become polynomial-time solvable for classes of graphs with a polynomially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Martin Milanič , Nevena Pivač

We determine all Hermitian $\mathcal{O}_{\Q(\sqrt{d})}$-matrices for which every eigenvalue is in the interval [-2,2], for each d in {-2,-7,-11,-15\}. To do so, we generalise charged signed graphs to $\mathcal{L}$-graphs for appropriate…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Graeme Taylor

In this paper, we completely characterize the graphs with third largest distance eigenvalue at most $-1$ and smallest distance eigenvalue at least $-3$. In particular, we determine all graphs whose distance matrices have exactly two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Lu Lu , Qiongxiang Huang , Xueyi Huang

In 1979, Neumaier gave a bound on $\lambda$ in terms of $m$ and $\mu$, where $-m$ is the smallest eigenvalue of a primitive strongly regular graph, unless the graph in question belongs to one of the two infinite families of strongly regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Jack Koolen , Chenhui Lv , Greg Markowsky , Jongyook Park

It is proved that the median eigenvalues of every connected bipartite graph $G$ of maximum degree at most three belong to the interval $[-1,1]$ with a single exception of the Heawood graph, whose median eigenvalues are $\pm\sqrt{2}$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Bojan Mohar

We give a survey on graphs with fixed smallest eigenvalue, especially on graphs with large minimal valency and also on graphs with good structures. Our survey mainly consists of the following two parts: (i) Hoffman graphs, the basic theory…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Jack H. Koolen , Meng-Yue Cao , Qianqian Yang

The spectral radius of a graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. A minimizer graph is such that minimizes the spectral radius among all connected graphs on $n$ vertices with diameter $d$. The minimizer graphs are known for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Jingfen Lan , Lingsheng Shi

In this paper, we obtain lower bounds for the domination numbers of connected graphs with girth at least $7$. We show that the domination number of a connected graph with girth at least $7$ is either $1$ or at least…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Yinglei Song

In 1970 Smith classified all connected graphs with the spectral radius at most $2$. Here the spectral radius of a graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Recently, the definition of spectral radius has been extended to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Linyuan Lu , Shoudong Man

We establish new bounds on the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues among real symmetric matrices with nonzero off-diagonal pattern described by the edges of a graph and apply these to determine the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Beth Bjorkman , Leslie Hogben , Scarlitte Ponce , Carolyn Reinhart , Theodore Tranel

The adjacency matrices of graphs form a special subset of the set of all integer symmetric matrices. The description of which graphs have all their eigenvalues in the interval [-2,2] (i.e., those having spectral radius at most 2) has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-17 James McKee , Chris Smyth

A mixed extension of a graph $G$ is a graph $H$ obtained from $G$ by replacing each vertex of $G$ by a clique or a coclique, where vertices of $H$ coming from different vertices of $G$ are adjacent if and only if the original vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Willem H. Haemers

Let $\lambda_{2}(G)$ be the second smallest normalized Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph $G$. In this paper, we determine all unicyclic graphs of order $n\geq21$ with $\lambda_{2}(G)\geq 1-\frac{\sqrt{6}}{3}$. Moreover, the unicyclic graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Weige Xi , Ligong Wang , Xiangxiang Liu , Xihe Li , Xiaoguo Tian

The eccentricity matrix of a simple connected graph is obtained from the distance matrix by only keeping the largest distances for each row and each column, whereas the remaining entries become zero. This matrix is also called the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Xinghui Zhao , Lihua You

In this paper, we obtain a lower bound for the smallest eigenvalue of a regular graph containing many copies of a smaller fixed subgraph. This generalizes a result of Aharoni, Alon, and Berger in which the subgraph is a triangle. We apply…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Vishal Gupta