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This paper extends the definitions of effective resistance and effective conductance to characterize the overall relation (positive coupling or antagonism) between any two disjoint sets of nodes in a signed graph. It generalizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Yue Song , David J. Hill , Tao Liu

Effective resistance (ER) is an attractive way to interrogate the structure of graphs. It is an alternative to computing the eigen-vectors of the graph Laplacian. Graph laplacians are used to find low dimensional structures in high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Robi Bhattacharjee , Alex Cloninger , Yoav Freund , Andreas Oslandsbotn

This paper studies an open consensus network design problem: identifying the optimal simple directed graphs, given a fixed number of vertices and arcs, that maximize the second smallest real part of all Laplacian eigenvalues, referred to as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Susie Lu , Marco Gamarra , Ji Liu

In this paper we characterize the unique graph whose algebraic connectivity is minimum among all connected graphs with given order and fixed matching number or edge covering number, and present two lower bounds for the algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Jing Xu , Yi-Zheng Fan , Ying-Ying Tan

This work explores the definiteness of the weighted graph Laplacian matrix with negative edge weights. The definiteness of the weighted Laplacian is studied in terms of certain matrices that are related via congruent and similarity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Daniel Zelazo , Mathias Bürger

We present a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining approximate maximum weight matching in general weighted graphs. The algorithm maintains a matching ${\cal M}$ whose weight is at least $1/8 M^{*}$ where $M^{*}$ is the weight of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Abhash Anand , Surender Baswana , Manoj Gupta , Sandeep Sen

The total effective resistance, also called the Kirchhoff index, provides a robustness measure for a graph $G$. We consider two optimization problems of adding $k$ new edges to $G$ such that the resulting graph has minimal total effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Maria Predari , Lukas Berner , Robert Kooij , Henning Meyerhenke

Let $q(G)$ denote the $Q$-index of a graph $G$, which is the largest signless Laplacian eigenvalue of $G$. We prove best possible upper bounds of $q(G)$ and best possible lower bounds of $q(\overline{G})$ for a connected graph $G$ to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Huicai Jia , Hong-Jian Lai , Ruifang Liu , Ju Zhou

Let $\mathcal{G}$ be the set of simple graphs (or multigraphs) $G$ such that for each $G \in \mathcal{G}$ there exists at least two non-empty disjoint proper subsets $V_{1},V_{2}\subseteq V(G)$ satisfying $V(G)\setminus(V_{1} \cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Cunxiang Duan , Ligong Wang , Xiangxiang Liu

We introduce an optimal transport based approach for comparing undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights and general vertex labels, and we study connections between the resulting linear program and the graph isomorphism problem. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Phuong N. Hoàng , Kevin McGoff , Andrew B. Nobel , Yang Xiang , Bongsoo Yi

In this paper we consider the following problem: Over the class of all simple connected graphs of order $n$ with $k$ pendant vertices ($n,k$ being fixed), which graph maximizes (respectively, minimizes) the algebraic connectivity? We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-25 Arbind K. Lal , Kamal L. Patra , Binod K. Sahoo

In the Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP), the input is an edge-weighted (di)graph $G$ and an integer $r_{uv}$ for every pair of vertices $u,v\in V(G)$. The objective is to construct a subgraph $H$ of minimum weight which contains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Manu Basavaraju , Pranabendu Misra , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

Algebraic data structures are the main subroutine for maintaining distances in fully dynamic graphs in subquadratic time. However, these dynamic algebraic algorithms generally cannot maintain the shortest paths, especially against adaptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anastasiia Alokhina , Jan van den Brand

Effective resistances are ubiquitous in graph algorithms and network analysis. In this work, we study sublinear time algorithms to approximate the effective resistance of an adjacent pair $s$ and $t$. We consider the classical adjacency…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongrun Cai , Xue Chen , Pan Peng

Consider a random regular graph with degree $d$ and of size $n$. Assign to each edge an i.i.d. exponential random variable with mean one. In this paper we establish a precise asymptotic expression for the maximum number of edges on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Hamed Amini , Yuval Peres

Three well-studied types of subgraph-restricted matchings are induced matchings, uniquely restricted matchings, and acyclic matchings. While it is hard to determine the maximum size of a matching of each of these types, whether some given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 M. Fürst , D. Rautenbach

Given $n$ weighted points (positive or negative) in $d$ dimensions, what is the axis-aligned box which maximizes the total weight of the points it contains? The best known algorithm for this problem is based on a reduction to a related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Arturs Backurs , Nishanth Dikkala , Christos Tzamos

Let $G$ be a (multi)graph of order $n$ and let $u,v$ be vertices of $G$. The maximum number of internally disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$ is denoted by $\kappa_G(u,v)$, and the maximum number of edge-disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$ is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Rocío M. Casablanca , Lucas Mol , Ortrud R. Oellermann

Effective graph resistance is a fundamental structural metric in network science, widely used to quantify global connectivity, compare network architectures, and assess robustness in flow-based systems. Despite its importance, current…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-05 Xiangrong Wang , Xin Yu , Zongze Wu , Yamir Moreno

We discuss the design of interlayer edges in a multiplex network, under a limited budget, with the goal of improving its overall performance. We analyze the following three problems separately; first, we maximize the smallest nonzero…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Heman Shakeri , Ali Tavassoli , Ehsan Ardjmand , Pietro Poggi-Corradini