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The Laplacian matrix of a simple graph is the difference of the diagonal matrix of vertex degree and the (0,1) adjacency matrix. In the past decades, the Laplacian spectrum has received much more and more attention, since it has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-31 Xiao-Dong Zhang

Two emerging topics in graph theory are the study of cospectral vertices of a graph, and the study of isospectral reductions of graphs. In this paper, we prove a fundamental relationship between these two areas, which is that two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Mark Kempton , John Sinkovic , Dallas Smith , Benjamin Webb

We characterize the graphs with loops whose degree sequences have no repeated values and find their adjacency spectrum. In the case of simple graphs, such graphs are called anti-regular graphs and are examples of threshold graphs. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Cesar O. Aguilar

Recently, there have been found new relations between the zero forcing number and the minimum rank of a graph with the algebraic co-rank. We continue on this direction by giving a characterization of the graphs with real algebraic co-rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Carlos A. Alfaro

Two graphs are co-spectral if their respective adjacency matrices have the same multi-set of eigenvalues. A graph is said to be determined by its spectrum if all graphs that are co-spectral with it are isomorphic to it. We consider these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Anuj Dawar , Simone Severini , Octavio Zapata

Let $G$ be a simple graph whose vertices are partitioned into two subsets, called filled vertices and empty vertices. A vertex $v$ is said to be forced by a filled vertex $u$ if $v$ is a unique empty neighbor of $u$. If we can fill all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Yaroslav Shitov

Characterizing graphs by their spectra is an important topic in spectral graph theory, which has attracted a lot of attention of researchers in recent years. It is generally very hard and challenging to show a given graph to be determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Wei Wang , Fenjin Liu , Wei Wang

A forcing set for a perfect matching of a graph is defined as a subset of the edges of that perfect matching such that there exists a unique perfect matching containing it. A complete forcing set for a graph is a subset of its edges, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Aref Nemayande , Elahe Tohidi

The graph isomorphism problem is a main problem which has numerous applications in different fields. Thus, finding an efficient and easy to implement method to discriminate non-isomorphic graphs is valuable. In this paper, a new method is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Ameneh Farhadian

In this paper, we investigate the non-symmetric Strong Spectral Property (nSSP) from a combinatorial perspective. To zero-nonzero patterns of matrices we associate directed graphs and study when they require or allow the nSSP, providing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Sara Koljančić , Polona Oblak

A cograph is a simple graph that contains no induced path on four vertices. In this paper, we consider $\mathcal{C}$-graphs, which are a specific class of cographs, defined as $$\overline{\overline{\overline{K_{\alpha_{1}}}\cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Anjitha Ashokan , Chithra A

This article deals with the spectra of Laplacians of weighted graphs. In this context, two objects are of fundamental importance for the dynamics of complex networks: the second eigenvalue of such a spectrum (called algebraic connectivity)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Camille Poignard , Tiago Pereira , Jan Philipp Pade

The forcing number of a perfect matching $M$ in a graph $G$ is the smallest number of edges inside $M$ that can not be contained in other perfect matchings. The anti-forcing number of $M$ is the smallest number of edges outside $M$ whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Kai Deng , Huazhong Lü , Tingzeng Wu

Let $D$ be an oriented graph with skew adjacency matrix $S(D)$. Two oriented graphs $D$ and $C$ are said to share the same generalized skew spectrum if $S(D)$ and $S(C)$ have the same eigenvalues, and $J-S(D)$ and $J-S(C)$ also have the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Muhammad Raza , Obaid Ullah Ahmed , Mudassir Shabbir , Xenofon Koutsoukos , Waseem Abbas

In this paper we present new L-borderenergetic graphs, this is, graphs which are L-noncospectral with Kn but have the same Laplacian energy. We also present some graphs which are noncospectral to respective normalized Laplacian energy and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Fernando Tura

Spectral characterization of graphs is an important topic in spectral graph theory, which has received a lot of attention from researchers in recent years. It is generally very hard to show a given graph to be determined by its spectrum.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Lihong Qiu , Wei Wang , Wei Wang , Hao Zhang

The study of spectral graph determination is a fascinating area of research in spectral graph theory and algebraic combinatorics. This field focuses on examining the spectral characterization of various classes of graphs, developing methods…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Igal Sason , Noam Krupnik , Suleiman Hamud , Abraham Berman

In this paper, we initiate the study of the inverse eigenvalue problem for probe graphs. A probe graph is a graph whose vertices are partitioned into probe vertices and non-probe vertices such that the non-probe vertices form an independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Emelie Curl , Jürgen Kritschgau , Carolyn Reinhart , Hein van der Holst

Originating from spectral graph theory, cospectrality is a powerful generalization of exchange symmetry and can be applied to all real-valued symmetric matrices. Two vertices of an undirected graph with real edge weights are cospectral iff…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Christian V. Morfonios , Maxim Pyzh , Malte Röntgen , Peter Schmelcher

Determining whether two graphs are structurally identical is a fundamental problem with applications spanning mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and network science. Despite decades of study, graph isomorphism remains a challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sara Najem , Amer E. Mouawad