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This article presents a novel and succinct algorithmic framework via alternating quantum walks, unifying quantum spatial search, state transfer and uniform sampling on a large class of graphs. Using the framework, we can achieve exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Qingwen Wang , Ying Jiang , Lvzhou Li

For a finite group $G$, we define the inclusion graph of subgroups of $G$, denoted by $\mathcal I(G)$, is a graph having all the proper subgroups of $G$ as its vertices and two distinct vertices $H$ and $K$ in $\mathcal I(G)$ are adjacent…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-29 P. Devi , R. Rajkumar

Given a compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold $Y$ on which a compact Lie group $G$ acts, there is always a metric on $Y$ such that the action is by isometries. Assuming $Y$ is equipped with such a metric, recall that the $G$-invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-08 M. R. Sandoval

A Riemannian orbifold is a mildly singular generalization of a Riemannian manifold that is locally modeled on $R^n$ modulo the action of a finite group. Orbifolds have proven interesting in a variety of settings. Spectral geometers have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Kathleen Daly , Colin Gavin , Gabriel Montes de Oca , Diana Ochoa , Elizabeth Stanhope , Sam Stewart

In this paper, we establish a tight sufficient condition for the Hamiltonicity of graphs with large minimum degree in terms of the signless Laplacian spectral radius and characterize all extremal graphs. Moreover, we prove a similar result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Yawen Li , Yao liu , Xing Peng

Let $G$ be a simple, connected graph, $\mathcal{D}(G)$ be the distance matrix of $G$, and $Tr(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of vertex transmissions of $G$. The distance Laplacian matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ are defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Pengli Lu , Wenzhi Liu

We introduce a zeta function of digraphs that determines, and is determined by, the spectra of all linear combinations of the adjacency matrix, its transpose, the out-degree matrix, and the in-degree matrix. In particular, zeta-equivalence…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Peter Herbrich

Let $\Gamma$ be the fundamental group of a finite connected graph $\mathcal G$. Let $\mathfrak M$ be an abelian group. A {\it distribution} on the boundary $\partial\Delta$ of the universal covering tree $\Delta$ is an $\mathfrak M$-valued…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Guyan Robertson

Let $G$ be an unicyclic graph of order $n$ and let $Q_G(x)= det(xI-Q(G))={matrix} \sum_{i=1}^n (-1)^i \varphi_i x^{n-i}{matrix}$ be the characteristic polynomial of the signless Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$. We give some transformations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Jie Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

In this paper, we present a sharp upper and lower bounds for the signless Laplacian spectral radius of graphs in terms of clique number. Moreover, the extremal graphs which attain the upper and lower bounds are characterized. In addition,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Bian He , Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The $\alpha$-Hermitian adjacency matrix $H_\alpha$ of a mixed graph $X$ has been recently introduced. It is a generalization of the adjacency matrix of unoriented graphs. In this paper, we consider a special case of the complex number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Omar Alomari , Mohammad Abudayah , Manal Ghanem

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

For a group $G$, the generating graph $\Gamma(G)$ is defined as the graph with the vertex set $G$, and any two distinct vertices of $\Gamma(G)$ are adjacent if they generate $G$. In this paper, we study the generating graph of $D_n,$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 A. Satyanarayana Reddy , Kavita Samant

Let $G$ be a $p$-group. We begin to consider the relationship between the structure of the commuting graph and $|G:Z(G)|$. We also build a family of groups whose commuting graphs have more than one connected component whose diameter is at…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Mark L. Lewis , Ryan McCulloch

The critical group of a connected graph is closely related to the graph Laplacian, and is of high research value in combinatorics, algebraic geometry, statistical physics, and several other areas of mathematics. In this paper, we study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Xinyu Dong , Guangfeng Jiang , Weili Guo

Critical ideals generalize the critical group, Smith group and the characteristic polynomials of the adjacency and Laplacian matrices of a graph. We give a complete characterization of the digraphs with at most one trivial critical ideal.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Carlos A. Alfaro , Carlos E. Valencia , Adrián Vázquez-Ávila

Laplace operators on finite compact metric graphs are considered under the assumption that matching conditions at graph vertices are of $\delta$ and $\delta'$ types. Assuming rational independence of edge lengths, necessary and sufficient…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Yulia Ershova , Irina I. Karpenko , Alexander V. Kiselev

We study entanglement properties of mixed density matrices obtained from combinatorial Laplacians. This is done by introducing the notion of the density matrix of a graph. We characterize the graphs with pure density matrices and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel L. Braunstein , Sibasish Ghosh , Simone Severini

M. Aouchiche and P. Hansen proposed the distance Laplacian and the distance signless Laplacian of a connected graph [Two Laplacians for the distance matrix of a graph, LAA 439 (2013) 21{33]. In this paper, we obtain three theorems on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-16 Wenxi Hong , Lihua You

In this paper, we investigate some relations between the invariants (including vertex and edge connectivity and forwarding indices) of a graph and its Laplacian eigenvalues. In addition, we present a sufficient condition for the existence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Rong-Ying Pan , Jing Yan , Xiao-Dong Zhang