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Given a simple graph $G$, its $A_\alpha$ matrix is a convex combination with parameter $\alpha\in [0,1]$ of its adjacency matrix and its degree diagonal matrices. Here we compare two lower bounds presented in [J. D. G. Silva Jr., C. S.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Giovanni Barbarino

The stability number of a graph, defined as the cardinality of the largest set of pairwise non-adjacent vertices, is NP-hard to compute. The exact subgraph hierarchy (ESH) provides a sequence of increasingly tighter upper bounds on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Elisabeth Gaar , Dunja Pucher

The toughness $t(G)$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is defined as $t(G)=\min\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\}$, in which the minimum is taken over all $S\subset V$ such that $G-S$ is disconnected, where $c(G-S)$ denotes the number of components of $G-S$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Xiaofeng Gu , Willem H. Haemers

L. Lov\'asz and B. Szegedy proved in 2006 that the limits of convergent graph sequences can be described by measurable symmetric functions $W: [0, 1]\times [0, 1]\to [0, 1]$ called graphons. In our present paper we investigate the structure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Attila Nagy

Dujmovi\'{c}, Joret, Micek, Morin, Ueckerdt, and Wood [J. ACM 2020] established that every planar graph is a subgraph of the strong product of a graph with bounded treewidth and a path. Motivated by this result, this paper systematically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Robert Hickingbotham , David R. Wood

Recently, Brandt, Maus and Uitto [PODC'19] showed that, in a restricted setting, the dependency of the complexity of the distributed Lov\'asz Local Lemma (LLL) on the chosen LLL criterion exhibits a sharp threshold phenomenon: They proved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Sebastian Brandt , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

We introduce the (private) entropy of a directed graph (in a new network coding sense) as well as a number of related concepts. We show that the entropy of a directed graph is identical to its guessing number and can be bounded from below…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Soren Riis

Given graphs $X$ and $Y$, we define two conic feasibility programs which we show have a solution over the completely positive cone if and only if there exists a homomorphism from $X$ to $Y$. By varying the cone, we obtain similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-27 David E. Roberson

We show, for any positive integer k, that there exists a graph in which any equitable partition of its vertices into k parts has at least ck^2/\log^* k pairs of parts which are not \epsilon-regular, where c,\epsilon>0 are absolute…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-26 David Conlon , Jacob Fox

The toughness $t(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is defined as $t(G)=\min\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\}$, in which the minimum is taken over all proper subsets $S\subset V(G)$ such that $c(G-S)>1$, where $c(G-S)$ denotes the number of components of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Xiaofeng Gu

In this paper we research a model of multilayer circuits with a single logical layer. We consider $\lambda$-separable graphs as a support for circuits. We establish the Shannon function lower bound $\max \bigl(\frac{2^n}{n}, \frac{2^n (1 -…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 T. R. Sitdikov , G. V. Kalachev

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that answers queries about a property of the current graph while supporting graph modifications such as edge insertions and deletions. Prior work has shown strong conditional lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Monika Henzinger , Ami Paz , A. R. Sricharan

The hierarchical product of two graphs represents a natural way to build a larger graph out of two smaller graphs with less regular and therefore more heterogeneous structure than the Cartesian product. Here we study the eigenvalue spectrum…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-28 Per Sebastian Skardal , Kirsti Wash

We define a graph to be $S$-regular if it contains an equitable partition given by a matrix $S$. These graphs are generalizations of both regular and bipartite, biregular graphs. An $S$-regular matrix is defined then as a matrix on an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Matthew B. Crawford , David J. Marchette , William Maxwell , Samuel S. Mendelson

The upper and lower Nordhaus-Gaddum bounds over all graphs for the power domination number follow from known bounds on the domination number and examples. In this note we improve the upper sum bound for the power domination number…

A fundamental result in extremal graph theory is attributed to Mantel's theorem, which states that every graph on $n$ vertices with more than $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ edges must contain a triangle. Lov\'{a}sz and Simonovits (1975) provided a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Yuejian Peng

For an analytic and univalent function $f$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}:=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ with the normalization $f(0)=0=f'(0)-1$, the logarithmic coefficients $\gamma_n$ are defined by $\log \frac{f(z)}{z}= 2\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Md Firoz Ali , D. K. Thomas , A. Vasudevarao

We give an upper bound on the maximal eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a connected graph in terms of its maximum degree, diameter and order. This bound is best possible up to a constant factor and improves prevoius results of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

We prove that the stack-number of the strong product of three $n$-vertex paths is $\Theta(n^{1/3})$. The best previously known upper bound was $O(n)$. No non-trivial lower bound was known. This is the first explicit example of a graph…

This is the sixth in a series of articles devoted to showing that a typical covering map of large degree to a fixed, regular graph has its new adjacency eigenvalues within the bound conjectured by Alon for random regular graphs. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Joel Friedman , David Kohler