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We construct infinite families of graphs that are determined by their generalized spectrum. This construction is based on new formulae for the determinant of the walk matrix of a graph. The graphs constructed here all satisfy a lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Fenjin Liu , Johannes Siemons , Wei Wang

External difference families (EDFs) are combinatorial objects which were introduced in the early 2000s, motivated by information security applications such as the construction of AMD codes. Various generalizations have since been defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sophie Huczynska , Christopher Jefferson , Struan McCartney

We call a finite undirected graph minimally k-matchable if it has at least k distinct perfect matchings but deleting any edge results in a graph which has not. An odd subdivision of some graph G is any graph obtained by replacing every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Gasper Fijavz , Matthias Kriesell

For each positive integer $n$, we define the divisibility relation graph $D_n$ whose vertex set is the set of divisors of $n$, and in which two vertices are adjacent if one is a divisor of the other. This type of graph is a special case of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jonathan L. Merzel , Ján Mináč , Tung T. Nguyen , Nguyen Duy Tân

The eccentricity matrix $\epsilon(G)$, of a connected graph $G$ is obtained by retaining the maximum distance from each row and column of the distance matrix of $G$ and the other entries are assigned with 0. In this paper, we discuss the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Anjitha Ashokan , Chithra A

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let ${\rm{cd}}(G)$ denote the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of $G$. Define then the character degree graph $\Delta(G)$ as the (simple undirected) graph whose vertices are the prime…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Silvio Dolfi , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus

In this paper, we classify connected amply regular graphs with diameter $d \geq 4$ and parameters $(v, k, \lambda, \mu)$ satisfying $\mu = \frac{k-1}{2}$, where $k\geq 5$ is odd. We prove that such a graph must be exactly one of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Wei Jin , Jack H. Koolen , Chenhui Lv

Nonstandard graphs have been defined and examined in prior works. The present work does the same for nonstandard digraphs. Since digraphs have more structure than do graphs, the present discussion requires more complicated definitions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-28 A. H. Zemanian

Let G be a finite group. Denoting by cd(G) the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of G, we consider the character degree graph of G: this is the (simple undirected) graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Silvio Dolfi , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus , Victor Sotomayor

Digraph-defined external difference families were recently introduced as a natural generalization of several well-studied combinatorial objects motivated by cryptography (e.g. external difference families (EDFs) and circular external…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Gavin Angus , Sophie Huczynska , Struan McCartney

Let $k\ge 1$ be an odd integer, $t=\lfloor {{k+2}\over 4}\rfloor$, and $q$ be a prime power. We construct a bipartite, $q$-regular, edge-transitive graph $C\!D(k,q)$ of order $v \le 2q^{k-t+1}$ and girth $g \ge k+5$. If $e$ is the the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Felix Lazebnik , Vasiliy A. Ustimenko , Andrew J. Woldar

We use methods from algebra and discrete geometry to study the irreducibility of the dispersion polynomial of a discrete periodic operator associated to a periodic graph after changing the period lattice. We provide numerous applications of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Matthew Faust , Jordy Lopez Garcia

Given a finite group G, let cd(G) denote the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of G. The character degree graph of G is defined as the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of the numbers in cd(G),…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Carlo Casolo , Silvio Dolfi , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus

The vertex-random graphs called proximity catch digraphs (PCDs) have been introduced recently and have applications in pattern recognition and spatial pattern analysis. A PCD is a random directed graph (i.e., digraph) which is constructed…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Elvan Ceyhan

Spherical Designs are finite sets of points on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d}$ with the property that the average of certain (low-degree) polynomials in these points coincides with the global average of the polynomial on $\mathbb{S}^{d}$. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Stefan Steinerberger

Let $G$ be a finite group. Denoting by ${\rm{cd}}(G)$ the set of the degrees of the irreducible complex characters of $G$, we consider the {\it character degree graph} of $G$: this is the (simple, undirected) graph whose vertices are the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-16 S. Dolfi , E. Pacifici , L. Sanus

A well known class of objects in combinatorial design theory are {group divisible designs}. Here, we introduce the $q$-analogs of group divisible designs. It turns out that there are interesting connections to scattered subspaces,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Marco Buratti , Michael Kiermaier , Sascha Kurz , Anamari Nakić , Alfred Wassermann

We construct explicit families of graphs whose eigenvalues are asymptotically distributed according to Wigner's semicircle law; in other words, that are spectrally indistinguishable from random graphs. However, in other respects they are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Arthur Forey , Javier Fresán , Emmanuel Kowalski , Yuval Wigderson

For a group $G,$ the generating graph of $G,$ denoted by $\Gamma(G).$ We define $Q_n=\langle x,y: x^{2n}=y^4=1, x^n=y^2,y^{-1}xy=x^{-1}\rangle,$ the dicyclic group of order $4n.$ This paper primarily delves into exploring the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Kavita Samant , A. Satyanarayana Reddy

Given a graph $G$, we have the adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and degree diagonal matrix $D(G)$. The $Q$-spectrum is the all eigenvalues of $Q$-matrix $Q(G)=A(G)+D(G)$. A class of graphs is determined by their generalized $Q$-spectrum (DGQS for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Liwen Gao , Xuejun Guo