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A signless Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph $G$ is called a main signless Laplacian eigenvalue if it has an eigenvector the sum of whose entries is not equal to zero. In this paper, all connected bicyclic graphs with exactly two main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-10 He Huang , Hanyuan Deng

Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two simple connected graphs. The invariant \textit{coronal} of graph is used in order to determine the $\alpha$-eigenvalues of four different types of graph equations that are $G_1 \circ G_2, G_1\lozenge G_1$ and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Muhammad Ateeq Tahir , Xiao-Dong Zhang

In this note we give a new upper bound for the Laplacian eigenvalues of an unweighted graph. Let $G$ be a simple graph on $n$ vertices. Let $d_{m}(G)$ and $\lambda_{m+1}(G)$ be the $m$-th smallest degree of $G$ and the $m+1$-th smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Miriam Farber , Ido Kaminer

We examine indivisibility for classes of graphs. We show that the class of hereditarily $\alpha$-sparse graphs is indivisible if and only if $\alpha > 2$. Additionally, we show that the following classes of graphs are indivisible: perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Vince Guingona , Felix Nusbaum , Zain Padamsee , Miriam Parnes , Christian Pippin , Ava Zinman

A signless Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph $G$ is called a main signless Laplacian eigenvalue if it has an eigenvector the sum of whose entries is not equal to zero. In this paper, we first give the necessary and sufficient conditions for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Hanyuan Deng , He Huang

The Bridge graph is a special type of graph which are constructed by connecting identical connected graphs with path graphs. We discuss different types of bridge graphs $B_{n\times l}^{m\times k}$ in this paper. In particular, we discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Yixin Li

For an $n \times n$ matrix $A$, let $q(A)$ be the number of distinct eigenvalues of $A$. If $G$ is a connected graph on $n$ vertices, let $\mathcal{S}(G)$ be the set of all real symmetric $n \times n$ matrices $A=[a_{ij}]$ such that for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Wayne Barrett , Shaun Fallat , Veronika Furst , Shahla Nasserasr , Brendan Rooney , Michael Tait

For a connected graph $G$ of order $n$, let $Diag(Tr)$ be the diagonal matrix of vertex transmissions and $D(G)$ be the distance matrix of $G$. The distance Laplacian matrix of $G$ is defined as $D^L(G)=Diag(Tr)-D(G)$ and the eigenvalues of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-15 S. Pirzada , Saleem Khan

In this paper, we characterize all connected graphs with exactly three distinct normalized Laplacian eigenvalues of which one is equal to $1$, determine all connected bipartite graphs with at least one vertex of degree $1$ having exactly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Xueyi Huang , Qiongxiang Huang

Let $G$ be a graph with $p(G)$ pendant vertices and $q(G)$ quasi-pendant vertices. Denote by $m_{L(G)}(\lambda)$ the multiplicity of $\lambda$ as a Laplacian eigenvalue of $G$. Let $\overline{G}$ be the reduced graph of $G$, which can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Fenglei Tian , Dein Wong

Let G be a graph on n vertices. The Laplacian matrix of G, denoted by L(G), is defined as L(G) = D(G) - A(G), where A(G) is the adjacency matrix of G and D(G) is the diagonal matrix of the vertex degrees of G. A graph G is said to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Anderson Fernandes Novanta , Carla S. Oliveira , Leonardo S. de Lima

The size of a largest independent set of vertices in a given graph $G$ is denoted by $\alpha(G)$ and is called its independence number (or stability number). Given a graph $G$ and an integer $K,$ it is NP-complete to decide whether…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Ingo Schiermeyer

In this paper we study two classes of graphs, the (m,k)-stars and l-dependent graphs, investigating the relation between spectrum characteristics and graph structure: conditions on the topology and edge weights are given in order to get…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Eleonora Andreotti , Armando Bazzani , Daniel Remondini , Graziano Servizi

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ with domination number $\gamma(G)$. Wang, Yan, Fang, Geng and Tian [Linear Algebra Appl. 607 (2020), 307-318] showed that for any Laplacian eigenvalue $\lambda$ of $G$ with multiplicity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 A. Abiad , S. Akbari , M. H. Fakharan , A. Mehdizadeh

We give a combinatorial characterization of graphs whose normalized Laplacian has three distinct eigenvalues. Strongly regular graphs and complete bipartite graphs are examples of such graphs, but we also construct more exotic families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Edwin R. van Dam , Gholamreza Omidi

For a connected subcubic graph $G\neq K_1$ let $V_i(G) = \{v \in V(G) ~|~ d_G(v)=i\}$ for $1 \leq i \leq 3.$ Given $c_1, c_2, c_ 3 \in \mathbb{R}^+$ and $ d \in \mathbb{R}$, we show several results of type $\alpha(G) \geq c_1|V_1(G)| +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Jochen Harant , Ingo Schiermeyer

Let $G$ be a graph, and let $\lambda(G)$ denote the smallest eigenvalue of $G$. First, we provide an upper bound for $\lambda(G)$ based on induced bipartite subgraphs of $G$. Consequently, we extract two other upper bounds, one relying on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Aryan Esmailpour , Sara Saeedi Madani , Dariush Kiani

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

Given a graph $G$, the adjacency matrix and degree diagonal matrix of $G$ are denoted by $A(G)$ and $D(G)$, respectively. In 2017, Nikiforov \cite{0007} proposed the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix: $A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G),$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Wanting Sun , Lixia Yan , Shuchao Li , Xuechao Li

Let $G$ be graph on $n$ vertices and $G^{(t)}$ its blow-up graph of order $t.$ In this paper, we determine all eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the signless Laplacian matrix of $G^{(t)}$ and its complement $\bar{G^{(t)}}.$

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Carla Oliveira , Leonardo de Lima , Vladimir Nikiforov