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Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex simple graph with adjacency matrix $A_G$. The \emph{complement rank} of $G$ is defined as $\operatorname{rank}(A_G+I)$, where $I$ is the identity matrix. In this paper we study Nordhaus--Gaddum type bounds for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Quanyu Tang

Let $G$ be a connected (non-complete) $d$-regular graph with $d\geq3$. Let $c(G-S)$ denote the number of components of $G-S$ for any cut $S$ of $G$. The toughness $t(G)$ of $G$ is defined as $\min\left\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\right\}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Wenqian Zhang

We determine the extremal graph $G$ of order $n$ that maximizes the sum of the spectral radii of $G$ and its complement. This resolves a conjecture posed by Stevanovi\'{c} in 2007.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Yen-Jen Cheng , Chih-wen Weng

Let $t$ be a positive integer, and let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ with $n\geq t+2$. A graph $G$ is said to be $\frac{1}{t}$-tough if $|S|\geq\frac{1}{t}c(G-S)$ for every subset $S$ of $V(G)$ with $c(G-S)\geq2$, where $c(G-S)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Sufang Wang , Wei Zhang

The fractional matching number of a graph G, is the maximum size of a fractional matching of G. The following sharp lower bounds for a graph G of order n are proved, and all extremal graphs are characterized in this paper. (1)The sum of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Ting Yang , Xiying Yuan

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Xu Chen , Guoping Wang

Let $A_\alpha(G)$ be the $A_\alpha$-matrix of a digraph $G$ and $\lambda_{\alpha 1}, \lambda_{\alpha 2}, \ldots, \lambda_{\alpha n}$ be the eigenvalues of $A_\alpha(G)$. Let $\rho_\alpha(G)$ be the $A_\alpha$ spectral radius of $G$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Xiuwen Yang , Ligong Wang

For a graph G, the spectral radius \r{ho}(G) of G is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we seek the relationship between \r{ho}(G) and the walks of the subgraphs of G. Especially, if G contains a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Wenqian Zhang

For $0\le \alpha\le 1$, Nikiforov proposed to study the spectral properties of the family of matrices $A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G)$ of a graph $G$, where $D(G)$ is the degree diagonal matrix and $A(G)$ is the adjacency matrix.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Haiyan Guo , Bo Zhou

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. The energy $E$ of the graph $G$ is defined as the sum of the moduli of the adjacency eigenvalues $\lambda_{1} \geq \lambda_{2} \geq \ldots \geq \lambda_{n}$ of $G$: $$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-04 Felix Goldberg

The spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Woo and Neumaier discovered that a connected graph $G$ with $\rho(G)\leq 3/2{\sqrt{2}}$ is either a dagger, an open quipu, or a closed quipu.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Jingfen Lan , Linyuan Lu

A vertex-colored graph $G$ is rainbow vertex-connected if any pair of distinct vertices are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors. The rainbow vertex-connection number of $G$, denoted by $rvc(G)$, is the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Lily Chen , Xueliang Li , Mengmeng Liu

Let $G$ be a connected uniform hypergraphs with maximum degree $\Delta$, spectral radius $\lambda$ and minimum H-eigenvalue $\mu$. In this paper, we give some lower bounds for $\Delta-\lambda$, which extend the result of [S.M. Cioab\u{a},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Jiang Zhou , Lizhu Sun , Changjiang Bu

The parameter $q(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues over the family of symmetric matrices described by $G$. It is shown that the minimum number of edges necessary for a connected graph $G$ to have $q(G)=2$ is…

Let $G$ be a digraph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$. Let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix with outdegrees of vertices of $G$. Nikiforov \cite{Niki} proposed to study the convex combinations of the adjacency matrix and diagonal matrix of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

Let $H=(V(H),E(H))$ be a graph. A $k$-coloring of $H$ is a mapping $\pi : V(H) \longrightarrow \{1,2,\ldots, k\}$, if each color class induces a $K_2$-free subgraph. For a graph $G$ of order at least $2$, a $G$-free $k$-coloring of $H$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Yaser Rowshan

The second-largest eigenvalue and second-smallest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph are measures of its connectivity. These eigenvalues can be used to analyze the robustness, resilience, and synchronizability of networks, and are related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Aida Abiad , Boris Brimkov , Xavier Martinez-Rivera , O Suil , Jingmei Zhang

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the \emph{$h$-extra $r$-component connectivity} $\kappa^h_r(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined to be the minimum size of a subset of vertices whose removal disconnects $G$, and there are at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Yu Wang , Dan Li , Huiqiu Lin

We prove two conjectures in spectral extremal graph theory involving the linear combinations of graph eigenvalues. Let $\lambda_1(G)$ be the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a graph $G$, and $\bar{G}$ be the complement of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Lele Liu

Let $ G $ be a simple graph with the vertex cover number $ \tau $. The energy $ \mathcal{E}(G) $ of $ G $ is the sum of the absolute values of all the adjacency eigenvalues of $ G $. In this article, we establish $ \mathcal{E}(G)\geq 2\tau…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Aniruddha Samanta