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Let $\mathcal{G}_{n, \beta^*}$ $(\mathcal{G}^*_{n,\beta^*})$ be the set of all (connected) graphs of order $n$ with fractional matching number $\beta^*$. In this paper, the graphs with maximal spectral radius in $\mathcal{G}_{n,\beta^*}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Qian-Qian Chen , Ji-Ming Guo

A graph is non-trivial if it contains at least one nonloop edge. The essential connectivity of $G$, denoted by $\kappa'(G)$, is the minimum number of vertices of $G$ whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least two components…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Daoxia Zhang , Dan Li , Wenxiu Ding

A connected graph is called a bi-block graph if each of its blocks is a complete bipartite graph. Let $\mathcal{B}(\mathbf{k}, \alpha)$ be the class of bi-block graph on $\mathbf{k}$ vertices with given independence number $\alpha$. It is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Joyentanuj Das , Sumit Mohanty

Given a graph family $\mathbb{H}$, let ${\rm SPEX}(n,\mathbb{H}_{\rm sub})$ denote the set of $n$-vertex $\mathbb{H}$-subdivision-free graphs with the maximum spectral radius. In this paper, we investigate the problem of graph subdivision…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Wanting Sun , Guanghui Wang , Pingchuan Yang

In this paper, we present two sharp upper bounds for the spectral radius of (bipartite) graphs with forbidden a star forest and characterize all extremal graphs. Moreover, the minimum least eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Let $\mathcal{B}(n,q)$ be the class of block graphs on $n$ vertices having all their blocks of the same size. We prove that if $G\in \mathcal{B}(n,q)$ has at most three pairwise adjacent cut vertices then the minimum spectral radius…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

Let G be a simple connected graph of order n with degree sequence d_1, d_2, ..., d_n in non-increasing order. The spectral radius rho(G) of G is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For each positive integer L at most n, we give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-10 Chia-an Liu , Chih-wen Weng

For a connected graph, the distance spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its distance matrix. In this paper, of all trees with both given order and fixed diameter, the trees with the minimal distance spectral radius are completely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Guanglong Yu , Shuguang Guo , Mingqing Zhai

We determine the minimal spectral radii among all skew-reciprocal integer matrices of a fixed even dimension that are primitive or nonnegative and irreducible. In particular, except for dimension six, we show that each such class of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Livio Liechti

We compute spectra of symmetric random matrices defined on graphs exhibiting a modular structure. Modules are initially introduced as fully connected sub-units of a graph. By contrast, inter-module connectivity is taken to be incomplete.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-24 G. Ergun , R. Kuehn

This work is devoted to lower bounds on independence numbers of distance graphs with vertices in $\{-1,0,1\}^n$. The asymptotic case is studied, yielding new results over a broad range of parameters. Numerical results are presented,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-20 A. R. Akhiiarov , A. V. Bobu , A. M. Raigorodskii

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and degree diagonal matrix $D (G)$. In 2017, Nikiforov [Appl. Anal. Discrete Math., 11 (2017) 81--107] defined the matrix $A_\alpha(G) = \alpha D(G) + (1-\alpha)A(G)$ for any real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Xichan Liu , Ligong Wang

For a connected graph $G$ and $\alpha\in [0,1)$, the distance $\alpha$-spectral radius of $G$ is the spectral radius of the matrix $D_{\alpha}(G)$ defined as $D_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha T(G)+(1-\alpha)D(G)$, where $T(G)$ is a diagonal matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-30 H. Y. Guo , B. Zhou

This paper presents sufficient conditions for Hamiltonian paths and cycles in graphs. Letting $\lambda\left( G\right) $ denote the spectral radius of the adjacency matrix of a graph $G,$ the main results of the paper are: (1) Let $k\geq1,$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Vladimir Nikiforov

For any finite, undirected, non-bipartite, vertex-transitive graph, we establish an explicit lower bound for the smallest eigenvalue of its normalised adjacency operator, which depends on the graph only through its degree and its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Arindam Biswas , Jyoti Prakash Saha

The integral circulant graph $ICG_n (D)$ has the vertex set $Z_n = \{0, 1, 2, \ldots, n - 1\}$, where vertices $a$ and $b$ are adjacent if $\gcd(a-b,n)\in D$, with $D \subseteq \{d : d \mid n,\ 1\leq d<n\}$. In this paper, we establish that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Milan Basic

In this paper, we obtain the sharp upper and lower bounds for the spectral radius of a nonnegative irreducible matrix. We also apply these bounds to various matrices associated with a graph or a digraph, obtain some new results or known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Lihua You , Yujie Shu , Pingzhi Yuan

The $\{K_{1,1}, K_{1,2},C_m: m\geq3\}$-factor of a graph is a spanning subgraph whose each component is an element of $\{K_{1,1}, K_{1,2},C_m: m\geq3\}$. In this paper, through the graph spectral methods, we establish the lower bound of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fengyun Ren , Shumin Zhang , Ke Wang

Let G be a graph of n vertices and m edges, and let G has no cycles of length 4. We give upper bounds on the adjacency spectral radius of G in terms of n and m.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-11 Vladimir Nikiforov

In this paper, we determine the graphs with maximum value of the sum number from $k$-clique spectral radius to $(2r-1)$-clique spectral radius among all $2K_{r}$-free graphs on $n$ vertices for $ r\le k$ and large $n$. We also determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Changjiang Bu , Yifan Sun , Haotian Zeng