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Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Jorge Alencar , Leonardo de Lima , Vladimir Nikiforov

Suppose that the vertex set of a connected graph $G$ is $V(G)=\{v_1,\cdots,v_n\}$. Then we denote by $Tr_{G}(v_i)$ the sum of distances between $v_i$ and all other vertices of $G$. Let $Tr(G)$ be the $n\times n$ diagonal matrix with its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Dandan Fan , Guoping Wang , Yinfeng Zhu

Let $G$ be a simple finite connected graph. The line graph $L(G)$ of graph $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the edges of $G$, where $ef \in E(L(G))$ when $e \cap f \neq \emptyset$. Iteratively, the higher order line graphs are defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Aryan Sanghi , Devsi Bantva , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal

Let $Q(G)=D(G)+A(G)$ be the signless Laplacian matrix of a simple graph of order $n$, where $D(G)$ and $A(G)$ are the degree diagonal matrix and the adjacency matrix of $G$, respectively. In this paper, we present a sharp upper bound for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Ming-Zhu Chen , Zhao-Ming Li , Xiao-Dong Zhang

For a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, having Laplacian spectrum $\mu_1, \mu_2, \cdots,\mu_n$ and signless Laplacian spectrum $\mu^+_1,\mu^+_2, \cdots,\mu^+_n$, the Laplacian energy and signless Laplacian energy of $G$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-15 S. Pirzada , Hilal A Ganie

Let $k\ge 1$ be an odd integer, $t=\lfloor {{k+2}\over 4}\rfloor$, and $q$ be a prime power. We construct a bipartite, $q$-regular, edge-transitive graph $C\!D(k,q)$ of order $v \le 2q^{k-t+1}$ and girth $g \ge k+5$. If $e$ is the the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Felix Lazebnik , Vasiliy A. Ustimenko , Andrew J. Woldar

Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a simple graph, where $V(G)$ and $E(G)$ are the vertex set and the edge set of $G$, respectively. The number of components of $G$ is denoted by $c(G)$. Let $t$ be a positive real number, and a connected graph $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Xiangge Liu , Yong Lu , Caili Jia , Qiannan Zhou , Yue Cui

Given a function $g=g(n)$ we let ${\mathcal E}^g$ be the class of all graphs $G$ such that if $G$ has order $n$ (that is, has $n$ vertices) then it is embeddable in some surface of Euler genus at most $g(n)$, and let ${\widetilde{\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Colin McDiarmid , Sophia Saller

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees of $G$. For any real $\alpha \in [0,1]$, Nikiforov defined the $A_\alpha$-matrix of a graph $G$ as $A_\alpha(G)=\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jiayu Lou , Ligong Wang , Ming Yuan

A matching M is a dominating induced matching of a graph, if every edge of the graph is either in $M$ or has a common end-vertex with exactly one edge in $M$. The concept of complete dominating induced matching is introduced as graphs where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-13 Domingos M. Cardoso , Enide A. Martins , Luís Medina , Oscar Rojo

Motivated by discrete Laplacian differential operators with various accuracy orders in numerical analysis, we introduce new matrices attached to a simple graph that can be considered graph Laplacians with higher accuracy. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Mary Yoon

This is an introduction to graph theory, from a geometric and analytic viewpoint. A finite graph $X$ is described by its adjacency matrix $d\in M_N(0,1)$, which can be thought of as being a kind of discrete Laplacian, and we first discuss…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Teo Banica

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices with girth $g$. Let $m_GI$ denote the number of Laplacian eigenvalues of graph $G$ in an interval $I$. In this paper, we show that if $G$ is not a cycle, then $m_G(n-g+3,n]\leq n-g$. Moreover, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Wenhao Zhen , Dein Wong , Songnian Xu

It is proved that for a graph of order $n$, where $n\ge 6$, if the signless Laplacian index is larger than or equal to certain value depending on $n$, then the graph contains a trebly chorded cycle, where the chords incident to a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Jin Cai , Bo Zhou

Consider a semigraph $G=(V,\,E)$; in this paper, we study the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of $G$. We show that the Laplacian of $G$ is positive semi-definite, and $G$ is connected if and only if $\lambda_2 >0.$ Along the similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Pralhad M. Shinde

We investigate quantum graphs with infinitely many vertices and edges without the common restriction on the geometry of the underlying metric graph that there is a positive lower bound on the lengths of its edges. Our central result is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Pavel Exner , Aleksey Kostenko , Mark Malamud , Hagen Neidhardt

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

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n \geq 3$ with sequence degree given as $d_{1}(G) \geq ... \geq d_{n}(G)$ and let $\mu_1(G),..., \mu_n(G)$ and $q_1(G), ..., q_{n}(G)$ be the Laplacian and signless Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$ arranged in non…

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

Suppose that the vertex set of a connected graph $G$ is $V(G)=\{v_1,\cdots,v_n\}$. Then we denote by $Tr_{G}(v_i)$ the sum of distances between $v_i$ and all other vertices of $G$. Let $Tr(G)$ be the $n\times n$ diagonal matrix with its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Dandy Fan , Guoping Wang

Typically, graph structures are represented by one of three different matrices: the adjacency matrix, the unnormalised and the normalised graph Laplacian matrices. The spectral (eigenvalue) properties of these different matrices are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-27 J. F. Lutzeyer , A. T. Walden