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In a signed graph each edge has a sign, $+1$ or $-1$. We introduce in the present paper a new definition of connection in a signed graph by the existence of both positive and negative chains between vertices. We prove some results and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Ouahiba Bessouf , Abdelkader Khelladi , Thomas Zaslavsky

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$, let $\lambda_1(G),\lambda_2(G),...,\lambda_n(G)$ be the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of $G$. The Esrada index of $G$ is defined as $EE(G)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}e^{\lambda_i(G)}$. In this paper we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Long Wang , Yi-Zheng Fan , Yi Wang

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be a diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of $G$ as \begin{equation*} A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha G)+(1-\alpha)A(G),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Chang Liu , Zimo Yan , Jianping Li

The pseudo-Grundy index of a graph is the largest number of colors that can be assigned to its edges, such that for every pair of colors $i,j$, if $i < j$ then every edge colored with color $j$ is adjacent to at least one edge colored with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Dolores Lara , Christian Rubio-Montiel , Francisco Zaragoza

A signed graph is a graph with a function that assigns a label of positive or negative to each edge. The sign of a circle is the product of the signs of its edges; a graph is balanced if all of its circles are positive. A set of edges whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Nicholas Lacasse

A signed bipartite graph G(U, V) is a bipartite graph in which each edge is assigned a positive or a negative sign. The signed degree of a vertex x in G(U, V) is the number of positive edges incident with x less the number of negative edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Pirzada , T. A. Naikoo , F. A. Dar

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

Given a graph $G,$ a subset of vertices is called a maximum dissociation set of $G$ if it induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1, and the subset has maximum cardinality. The cardinality of a maximum dissociation set is called the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Zihan Zhou , Shuchao Li

The spread of a graph is the difference between the largest and most negative eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. We show that for sufficiently large $n$, the $n$-vertex outerplanar graph with maximum spread is a vertex joined to a linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Daniel Gotshall , Megan O'Brien , Michael Tait

A signed graph $\Gamma$ is said to be determined by its spectrum if every signed graph with the same spectrum as $\Gamma$ is switching isomorphic with $\Gamma$. Here it is proved that the path $P_n$, interpreted as a signed graph, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Saieed Akbari , Willem H. Haemers , Hamid Reza Maimani , Leila Parsaei Majd

Let $G$ be a simple graph and $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. The matrix $S(G) = J -I -2A(G)$ is called the Seidel matrix of $G$, where $I$ is an identity matrix and $J$ is a square matrix all of whose entries are equal to 1.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-05 M. Souri , F. Heydari , M. Maghasedi

A \textit{signed graph} is a simple graph whose edges are labelled with positive or negative signs. A cycle is \textit{positive} if the product of its edge signs is positive. A signed graph is \textit{balanced} if every cycle in the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Deepak Sehrawat , Bikash Bhattacharjya

Consider the family of all finite graphs with maximum degree $\Delta(G)<d$ and matching number $\nu(G)<m$. In this paper we give a new proof to obtain the exact upper bound for the number of edges in such graphs and also characterize all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Niranjan Balachandran , Niraj Khare

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $\sigma$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Yiting Cai , Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

A signed graph is a graph together with an assignment of signs to the edges. A closed walk in a signed graph is said to be positive (negative) if it has an even (odd) number of negative edges, counting repetition. Recognizing the signs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Reza Naserasr , Eric Sopena , Thomas Zaslavsky

A weighted graph $G^{\omega}$ consists of a simple graph $G$ with a weight $\omega$, which is a mapping,$\omega$: $E(G)\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}\backslash\{0\}$. A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labeled with $-1$ or $1$. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-24 S. Akbari , A. Ghafari , K. Kazemian , M. Nahvi

We give an upper bound on the number of perfect matchings in an undirected simple graph $G$ with an even number of vertices, in terms of the degrees of all the vertices in $G$. This bound is sharp if $G$ is a union of complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Shmuel Friedland

Let $\gamma'_s(G)$ be the signed edge domination number of G. In 2006, Xu conjectured that: for any $2$-connected graph G of order $ n (n \geq 2),$ $\gamma'_s(G)\geq 1$. In this article we show that this conjecture is not true. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Saeed Akbari , Sadegh Bolouki , Pooya Hatami , Milad Siami

A mixed graph is obtained by orienting some edges of a simple graph. The positive inertia index of a mixed graph is defined as the number of positive eigenvalues of its Hermitian adjacency matrix, including multiplicities. This matrix was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Xiaocong He , Lihua Feng

For a connected graph $G$, let $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$ and $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the degrees of the vertices in $G$. The $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of $G$ is defined as \begin{align*} A_\alpha (G) = \alpha D(G) +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Joyentanuj Das , Iswar Mahato