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Let $\Gamma=(K_n,H^-)$ be a signed complete graph with the negative edges induced subgraph $H$. According to the properties of the negative-edge-induced subgraph, characterizing the extremum problem of the index of the signed complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Mingsong Qin , Dan Li

A $k$-cyclic graph is a connected graph of order $n$ and size $n+k-1$. In this paper, we determine the maximal signless Laplacian spectral radius and the corresponding extremal graph among all $C_{4}$-free $k$-cyclic graphs of order $n$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Qi Kong , Ligong Wang

In this paper, we consider the bounds for the largest eigenvalue and the sum of the $k$ largest Laplacian eigenvalues of signed graphs. Firstly, we give an upper bound on the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a signed graph and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Linfeng Xie , Xiaogang Liu

Suppose that $\dot{G}$ is an unbalanced signed graph of order $n$ with $e(\dot{G})$ edges. Let $\rho(\dot{G})$ be the spectral radius of $\dot{G}$, and $\mathcal{K}_4^-$ be the set of the unbalanced $K_4$. In this paper, we prove that if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Fan Chen , Xiying Yuan

We conjecture that the balanced complete bipartite graph $K_{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor,\lceil n/2 \rceil}$ contains more cycles than any other $n$-vertex triangle-free graph, and we make some progress toward proving this. We give equivalent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-30 Stephane Durocher , David S. Gunderson , Pak Ching Li , Matthew Skala

This paper gives tight upper bounds on the number of edges and the index for $\mathcal{K}^-_{r + 1}$-free unbalanced signed graphs, where $\mathcal{K}^-_{r + 1}$ is the set of $r+1$-vertices unbalanced signed complete graphs. \indent We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zhuang Xiong , Yaoping Hou

Let $G_w$ be a weighted graph. The number of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues in the spectrum of $G_w$ are called positive inertia index, negative inertia index and nullity of $G_w$, and denoted by $i_{+}(G_w)$, $i_{-}(G_w)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Shibing Deng , Shuchao Li , Feifei Song

We determine the maximum number of edges in a $K_4$-minor-free $n$-vertex graph of girth $g$, when $g = 5$ or $g$ is even. We argue that there are many different $n$-vertex extremal graphs, if $n$ is even and $g$ is odd.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-11 János Barát

We consider signed graphs, i.e, graphs with positive or negative signs on their edges. We determine the admissible parameters for the $\{5,6,\ldots,10\}$-regular signed graphs which have only two distinct eigenvalues. For each obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Farzaneh Ramezani

For any positive integer $k$, we show that every maximal $C_{2k+1}$-free graph with at least $n^2/4-o(n^{3/2})$ edges contains an induced complete bipartite subgraph on $(1-o(1))n$ vertices. We also show that this is best possible.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang , Xiaoli Yuan

A signed graph is one that features two types of edges: positive and negative. Balanced signed graphs are those in which all cycles contain an even number of positive edges. In the adjacency matrix of a signed graph, entries can be $0$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo

This note presents a new spectral version of the graph Zarankiewicz problem: How large can be the maximum eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian of a graph of order $n$ that does not contain a specified complete bipartite subgraph. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Maria Aguieiras A. de Freitas , Vladimir Nikiforov , Laura Patuzzi

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are given (-1,+1) weights. In such a graph, the sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges. A signed graph is called balanced if its adjacency matrix is similar to the adjacency matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Devlin Mallory , Abigail Raz , Christino Tamon , Thomas Zaslavsky

The sum $\lambda_1 + \lambda_n$ of the maximum and minimum eigenvalues, and the odd girth of a graph both measure bipartiteness. We seek to relate these measures. In particular, for an odd integer $k\geq 3$, let $\gamma_k$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Fredy Yip

Woodall proved that for a graph $G$ of order $n\geq 2k+3$ where $k\geq 0$ is an integer, if $e(G)\geq \binom{n-k-1}{2}+\binom{k+2}{2}+1$ then $G$ contains a $C_{\ell}$ for each $\ell\in [3,n-k]$. In this article, we prove a stability result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Binlong Li , Bo Ning

For a cycle $C_k$ on $k$ vertices, its $p$-th power, denoted $C_k^p$, is the graph obtained by adding edges between all pairs of vertices at distance at most $p$ in $C_k$. Let $\ex(n, F)$ and $\spex(n, F)$ denote the maximum possible number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Xinhui Duan , Lu Lu

Let $G$ be a graph with edge set $E(G)$. Denote by $d_w$ the degree of a vertex $w$ of $G$. The sigma index of $G$ is defined as $\sum_{uv\in E(G)}(d_u-d_v)^2$. A connected graph of order $n$ and size $n+k-1$ is known as a connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Akbar Ali , Abeer M. Albalahi , Abdulaziz M. Alanazi , Akhlaq A. Bhatti , Amjad E. Hamza

In this paper, we present an elementary proof of a theorem of Serre concerning the greatest eigenvalues of $k$-regular graphs. We also prove an analogue of Serre's theorem regarding the least eigenvalues of $k$-regular graphs: given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sebastian M. Cioaba

A signed bipartite (simple) graph $(G, \sigma)$ is said to be $C_{-4}$-critical if it admits no homomorphism to $C_{-4}$ (a negative 4-cycle) but every proper subgraph of it does. In this work, first of all we show that the notion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Reza Naserasr , Lan Anh Pham , Zhouningxin Wang

In this paper, we study the maximum adjacency spectral radii of graphs of large order that do not contain an even cycle of given length. For $n>k$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the join of a clique on $k$ vertices with an independent set of $n-k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Sebastian Cioabă , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait