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This paper establishes new upper bounds for the sum of the $k$ largest eigenvalues of symmetric matrices. When applied to the adjacency matrix of a graph, our results improve upon a related bound due to Mohar {\bf [On the sum of k largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Shaowei Sun , Yaping Min , Kinkar Chandra Das

We present two new contributions to the study of the independence polynomial $Z_G(z)$ of a finite simple graph $G = (V,E)$. First, we provide an improved lower bound for the zero-free region of $Z_G(z)$ for the important class of claw-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Paula M. S. Fialho , Aldo Procacci

The ultimate independence ratio of a graph $G$ is defined as $\mathscr{I}(G) = \lim_{k\rightarrow\infty } \frac{\alpha(G^{\Box k})}{|V(G)|^k},$ where $\alpha(G^{\Box k})$ is the independence number of the Cartesian product of $k$ copies of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Alexander Clow , Hitesh Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

Let $\mathcal{G}$ be a $k$-uniform hypergraph, $\mathcal{L}_{\mathcal{G}}$ be its Laplacian tensor. And $\beta( \mathcal{G})$ denotes the maximum number of linearly independent nonnegative eigenvectors of $\mathcal{L}_{\mathcal{G}}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Chunli Deng , Lizhu Sun , Changjiang Bu

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph. A set $I\subseteq V$ is an independent set, if no two of its members are adjacent in $G$. The $k$-independent graph of $G$, $I_k (G)$, is defined to be the graph whose vertices correspond to the independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Davood Fatehi , Saeid Alikhani , Abdul Jalil M. Khalaf

The size of a largest independent set of vertices in a given graph $G$ is denoted by $\alpha(G)$ and is called its independence number (or stability number). Given a graph $G$ and an integer $K,$ it is NP-complete to decide whether…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Ingo Schiermeyer

The independence polynomial $I(G, x)$ of a graph $G$ is the polynomial in variable $x$ in which the coefficient $a_n$ on $x^n$ gives the number of independent subsets $S \subseteq V(G)$ of vertices of $G$ such that $|S| = n$. $I(G, x)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Patrick Bahls , Bailey Ethridge , Levente Szabo

Let $ \Phi=(G, \varphi) $ be a connected complex unit gain graph ($ \mathbb{T} $-gain graph) on a simple graph $ G $ with $ n $ vertices and maximum vertex degree $ \Delta $. The associated adjacency matrix and degree matrix are denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Aniruddha Samanta , M. Rajesh Kannan

Given a graph $G$, the \textit{independence complex} $I(G)$ is the simplicial complex whose faces are the independent sets of $V(G)$. Let $\tilde{b}_i$ denote the $i$-th reduced Betti number of $I(G)$, and let $b(G)$ denote the sum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Hehui Wu , Wentao Zhang

The independence complex of a graph G is a simplicial complex whose simplices are the independent sets in G. In the last couple of decades, the independence complexes of square grids (with various boundary conditions) have gained much…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Anurag Singh

Consider two graphs $G$ and $H$. Let $H^k[G]$ be the lexicographic product of $H^k$ and $G$, where $H^k$ is the lexicographic product of the graph $H$ by itself $k$ times. In this paper, we determine the spectrum of $H^k[G]$ and $H^k$ when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Nair Abreu , Domingos M. Cardoso , Paula Carvalho , Cybele T. M. Vinagre

Given a connected graph $G$, the Randi\'c index $R(G)$ is the sum of $\tfrac{1}{\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}}$ over all edges $\{u,v\}$ of $G$, where $d(u)$ and $d(v)$ are the degree of vertices $u$ and $v$ respectively. Let $q(G)$ be the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Bo Ning , Xing Peng

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

Let $G$ be an unicyclic graph of order $n$ and let $Q_G(x)= det(xI-Q(G))={matrix} \sum_{i=1}^n (-1)^i \varphi_i x^{n-i}{matrix}$ be the characteristic polynomial of the signless Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$. We give some transformations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Jie Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Here we have investigated a few properties of the eigenvalues of normalized (geometric) graph Laplacian in different graphs. Preservation of eigenvalue 1 from a particular subgraph to the entire graph, the spectrum of the graph constructed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Anirban Banerjee

Let $X$ be a simplicial complex. For $1\le i\le\dim(X)$, let $X(i)$ be the set of $i$-dimensional faces of $X$, and let $f_i(X)=|X(i)|$. For $0\le i\le \dim(X)-1$, let $L_i^+(X)$ be the $i$-th upper Laplacian operator of $X$. For $\sigma\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Alan Lew

Let G be a simple graph and L = L(G) the Laplacian matrix of G. G is called L-integral if all its Laplacian eigenvalues are integer numbers. It is known that every cograph, a graph free of P4, is L-integral. The class of P4-sparse graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Renata Del-Vecchio , Atila Jones

{Signless Laplacian determinations of some graphs with independent edges}% {Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph. Then the signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ is defined as $D_G + A_G$ in which $D_G$ and $A_G$ denote the degree matrix and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-19 R. Sharafdini , A. Z. Abdian

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a graph. We define matrices $M(G; \alpha, \beta)$as $\alpha D + \beta A$, where $\alpha$, $\beta$ are real numbers such that $(\alpha, \beta) \neq (0, 0)$ and $D$ and $A$ are the diagonal matrix and adjacency matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Rao Li

Given a finite simple graph $\cG$ with $n$ vertices, we can construct the Cayley graph on the symmetric group $S_n$ generated by the edges of $\cG$, interpreted as transpositions. We show that, if $\cG$ is complete multipartite, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Filippo Cesi