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We show that the twin-width of every $n$-vertex $d$-regular graph is at most $n^{\frac{d-2}{2d-2}+o(1)}$ and that almost all $d$-regular graphs attain this bound. More generally, we obtain bounds on the twin-width of sparse Erd\H{o}s-Renyi…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Kevin Hendrey , Sergey Norin , Raphael Steiner , Jérémie Turcotte

We prove a general upper bound on the $k$-th adjacency eigenvalue of a graph. For $k\ge 2$, we show that \[ \lambda_k(G)\le \frac{(k-2)\sqrt{k+1}+2}{2k(k-1)}\,n-1 \] for every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. We build on a recent approach that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Varun Sivashankar

Given a regular (connected) graph $\Gamma=(X,E)$ with adjacency matrix $A$, $d+1$ distinct eigenvalues, and diameter $D$, we give a characterization of when its distance matrix $A_D$ is a polynomial in $A$, in terms of the adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-05 M. A. Fiol , Safet Penjić

We study the spectral gap of the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph through the connectivity threshold. In particular, we show that for any fixed $\delta > 0$ if $$p \ge \frac{(1/2 + \delta) \log n}{n},$$ then the normalized graph Laplacian of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Christopher Hoffman , Matthew Kahle , Elliot Paquette

We study the eigenvalues of the unique connected anti-regular graph $A_n$. Using Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind, we obtain a trigonometric equation whose roots are the eigenvalues and perform elementary analysis to obtain an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Cesar O. Aguilar , Joon-yeob Lee , Eric Piato , Barbara J. Schweitzer

We consider the uniform random $d$-regular graph on $N$ vertices, with $d \in [N^\alpha, N^{2/3-\alpha}]$ for arbitrary $\alpha > 0$. We prove that in the bulk of the spectrum the local eigenvalue correlation functions and the distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Roland Bauerschmidt , Jiaoyang Huang , Antti Knowles , Horng-Tzer Yau

Let $\lambda$ be the second largest eigenvalue in absolute value of a uniform random $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices. It was famously conjectured by Alon and proved by Friedman that if $d$ is fixed independent of $n$, then…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Nicholas A. Cook , Larry Goldstein , Tobias Johnson

We prove that for each $d\geq 3$ and $k\geq 2$, the set of limit points of the first $k$ eigenvalues of sequences of $d$-regular graphs is \[ \{(\mu_1,\dots,\mu_k): d=\mu_1\geq \dots\geq \mu_{k}\geq2\sqrt{d-1}\}. \] The result for $k=2$ was…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Dingding Dong , Theo McKenzie

We prove that for all values of the edge probability p(n) the largest eigenvalue of a random graph G(n,p) satisfies almost surely: \lambda_1(G)=(1+o(1))max{\sqrt{\Delta},np}, where \Delta is a maximal degree of G, and the o(1) term tends to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

We establish bounds on the spectral radii for a large class of sparse random matrices, which includes the adjacency matrices of inhomogeneous Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs. Our error bounds are sharp for a large class of sparse random matrices.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Florent Benaych-Georges , Charles Bordenave , Antti Knowles

For a graph $G$, let $\lambda_2(G)$ denote the second largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$. We determine the extremal trees with maximum/minimum adjacency eigenvalue $\lambda_2$ in the class $\mathcal{T}(n,d)$ of $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Hitesh Kumar , Bojan Mohar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Hanmeng Zhan

We consider the ensemble of adjacency matrices of Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, that is, graphs on $N$ vertices where every edge is chosen independently and with probability $p\equiv p(N)$. We rescale the matrix so that its bulk…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-12 László Erdős , Antti Knowles , Horng-Tzer Yau , Jun Yin

Let $G$ be a connected $d$-regular graph of order $n$, where $d\geq3$. Let $\lambda_{2}(G)$ be the second largest eigenvalue of $G$. For even $n$, we show that $G$ contains $\left\lfloor\frac{2}{3}(d-\lambda_{2}(G))\right\rfloor$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Wenqian Zhang

In this note we show that the singular probability of the adjacency matrix of a random $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices, where $d$ is fixed and $n \to \infty$, is bounded by $n^{-1/3+o(1)}$. This improves a recent bound by Huang. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Hoi H. Nguyen , Amanda Pan

In this paper we show the following conjecture of Noga Alon. Fix a positive integer d>2 and real epsilon > 0; consider the probability that a random d-regular graph on n vertices has the second eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix greater…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joel Friedman

Spectral graph theory studies how the eigenvalues of a graph relate to the structural properties of a graph. In this paper, we solve three open problems in spectral extremal graph theory which generalize the classical Tur\'{a}n-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

Let $G=G(n,p_n)$ be a homogeneous Erd\"os-R\'enyi graph, and $A$ its adjacency matrix with eigenvalues $\lambda_1(A) \geq \lambda_2(A) \geq ... \geq \lambda_n(A).$ Local laws have been used to show that $lambda_2(A)$ can exhibit…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Simona Diaconu

We show that for any connected graph $G$ with maximum degree $d\ge3$, the spectral gap from $0$ with respect to the adjacency matrix is at most $\sqrt{d-1}$, with equality if and only if $G$ is the incidence graph of a finite projective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuhan Guo , Dong Zhang

A {\it fractional matching} of a graph $G$ is a function $f$ giving each edge a number in $[0,1]$ so that $\sum_{e \in \Gamma(v)} f(e) \le 1$ for each $v\in V(G)$, where $\Gamma(v)$ is the set of edges incident to $v$. The {\it fractional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Suil O

Let $\lambda_2(G)$ and $\kappa'(G)$ be the second largest eigenvalue and the edge-connectivity of a graph $G$, respectively. Let $d$ be a positive integer at least 3. For $t=1$ or 2, Cioaba proved sharp upper bounds for $\lambda_2(G)$ in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Suil O , Jongyook Park , Jeong Rye Park , Hyunju Yu