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Let $G$ denote a $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graph with diameter $D$ at least 4. Assume that the intersection numbers of $G$ satisfy $a_i=0$ for $0 \leq i \leq D-1$ and $a_D\neq 0$. We show that $G$ is a polygon, a folded cube, or an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Michael S. Lang , Paul M. Terwilliger

We study regular graphs whose distance-$2$ graph or distance-$1$-or-$2$ graph is strongly regular. We provide a characterization of such graphs $\Gamma$ (among regular graphs with few distinct eigenvalues) in terms of the spectrum and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , J. Koolen

The distance eigenvalues of a connected graph $G$ are the eigenvalues of its distance matrix $D(G)$. A graph is called distance integral if all of its distance eigenvalues are integers. Let $n \geq 3$ be an integer. The crown graph $Cr(n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 S. Morteza Mirafzal

We prove the monotonic normalized heat diffusion property on distance-regular graphs with classical parameters of diameter $3$. Regev and Shinkar found a Cayley graph for which this property fails. On the other hand, this property has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Shiping Liu , Heng Zhang

Let $\Gamma$ be a distance-regular graph with classical parameters $(D, b, \alpha, \beta)$ satisfying $b\geq 2$ and $D\geq 3$. Let $r=1+b+b^2+\cdots+b^{D-1}$. In 1999, K. Metsch showed that there exists a positive constant $C(\alpha,b)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Chenhui Lv , Jack H. Koolen

A {\em resolving set} for a graph $\Gamma$ is a collection of vertices $S$, chosen so that for each vertex $v$, the list of distances from $v$ to the members of $S$ uniquely specifies $v$. The {\em metric dimension} of $\Gamma$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Robert F. Bailey

In 2017, Qiao and Koolen showed that for any fixed integer $D\geq 3$, there are only finitely many such graphs with $\theta_{\min}\leq -\alpha k$, where $0<\alpha<1$ is any fixed number. In this paper, we will study non-bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Zhi Qiao , Yifan Jing , Jack Koolen

Let D be the distance matrix of a connected graph G and let nn(G), np(G) be the number of strictly negative and positive eigenvalues of D respectively. It was remarked in [1] that it is not known whether there is a graph for which np(G) >…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Jernej Azarija

A graph $G$ with $d+1$ distinct eigenvalues is called strongly distance-regular if $G$ itself is distance-regular, and its distance-$d$ graph $G_d$ is strongly-regular. In this note we provide a spectral characterization of those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-08 M. A. Fiol

A real symmetric matrix $A$ is said to be completely positive if it can be written as $BB^t$ for some (not necessarily square) nonnegative matrix $B$. A simple graph $G$ is called a completely positive graph if every doubly nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Joyentanuj Das , Sachindranath Jayaraman , Sumit Mohanty

We consider nonregular graphs having precisely three distinct eigenvalues. The focus is mainly on the case of graphs having two distinct valencies and our results include constructions of new examples, structure theorems, valency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Xi-Ming Cheng , Alexander L. Gavrilyuk , Gary R. W. Greaves , Jack H. Koolen

In this paper we give two characterizations of the $p \times q$-grid graphs as co-edge-regular graphs with four distinct eigenvalues.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Brhane Gebremichel , Meng-Yue Cao , Jack H. Koolen

Any directed graph G with N vertices and J edges has an associated line-graph L(G) where the J edges form the vertices of L(G). We show that the non-zero eigenvalues of the adjacency matrices are the same for all graphs of such a family…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Prot Pakonski , Gregor Tanner , Karol Zyczkowski

Let the Kneser graph $K$ of a distance-regular graph $\Gamma$ be the graph on the same vertex set as $\Gamma$, where two vertices are adjacent when they have maximal distance in $\Gamma$. We study the situation where the Bose-Mesner algebra…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-02 A. E. Brouwer , M. A. Fiol

Suppose $G$ is a connected simple graph with the vertex set $V( G ) = \{ v_1,v_2,\cdots ,v_n \} $. Let $d_G( v_i,v_j ) $ be the least distance between $v_i$ and $v_j$ in $G$. Then the distance matrix of $G$ is $D( G ) =( d_{ij} ) _{n\times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Xu Chen , Yinfen Zhu , Guoping Wang

For a connected graph $G$, we present the concept of a new graph matrix related to its distance and Seidel matrix, called distance Seidel matrix $\mathcal{D}^S(G)$. Suppose that the eigenvalues of $\mathcal{D}^S(G)$ be $\partial_{1}^{S}(G)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Haritha T , Chithra A.

Given a positive-weighted simple connected graph with $m$ vertices, labelled by the numbers $1,\ldots,m$, we can construct an $m \times m$ matrix whose entry $(i,j)$, for any $i,j\in\{1,\dots,m\}$, is the minimal weight of a path between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Elena Rubei , Dario Villanis Ziani

Let $G$ be a connected simple graph with $n$ vertices. The distance Laplacian matrix $D^{L}(G)$ is defined as $D^L(G)=Diag(Tr)-D(G)$, where $Diag(Tr)$ is the diagonal matrix of vertex transmissions and $D(G)$ is the distance matrix of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Saleem Khan , S. Pirzada

For a distance-regular graph with second largest eigenvalue (resp. smallest eigenvalue) \mu1 (resp. \muD) we show that (\mu1+1)(\muD+1)<= -b1 holds, where equality only holds when the diameter equals two. Using this inequality we study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Jack H. Koolen , Jongyook Park , Hyonju Yu

In this paper we construct distance-regular graphs admitting a transitive action of the five sporadic simple groups discovered by E. Mathieu, the Mathieu groups $M_{11}$, $M_{12}$, $M_{22}$, $M_{23}$ and $M_{24}$. From the code spanned by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Dean Crnkovic , Nina Mostarac , Andrea Svob