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Let $G$ be an simple graph of order $n$ whose adjacency eigenvalues are $\lambda_1\ge\dots\ge\lambda_n$. The HL--index of $G$ is defined to be $R(G)= \max\{|\lambda_{h}|, |\lambda_{l}|\}$ with $h=\left\lfloor\frac{n+1}{2}\right\rfloor$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Yuzhenni Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

For a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with normalized Laplacian eigenvalues $0 = \lambda_1(G) \leq \lambda_2(G) \leq \cdots \leq \lambda_n(G)$ and graph complement $G^c$, we prove that \begin{equation*} \max\{\lambda_2(G),\lambda_2(G^c)\}\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 J. Nolan Faught , Mark Kempton , Adam Knudson

The toughness $t(G)$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is defined as $t(G)=\min\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\}$, in which the minimum is taken over all $S\subset V$ such that $G-S$ is disconnected, where $c(G-S)$ denotes the number of components of $G-S$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Xiaofeng Gu , Willem H. Haemers

Let $H$ and $G$ be graphs such that $H$ has at least 3 vertices and is connected. The $H$-line graph of $G$, denoted by $HL(G)$, is that graph whose vertices are the edges of $G$ and where two vertices of $HL(G)$ are adjacent if they are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Alvaro Carbonero

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. The spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$. As is well known, $\rho(G)\geq\frac{2m}{n}$ with equality if and only if $G$ is regular. To…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Wenqian Zhang

Given a finite regular graph G=(V,E) and a metric space (X,d_X), let $gamma_+(G,X) denote the smallest constant $\gamma_+>0$ such that for all f,g:V\to X we have: \frac{1}{|V|^2}\sum_{x,y\in V} d_X(f(x),g(y))^2\le \frac{\gamma_+}{|E|}…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-02 Manor Mendel , Assaf Naor

For a connected graph, the distance spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its distance matrix, and the distance energy is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of its distance matrix. We establish lower and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Bo Zhou , Aleksandar Ilic

The cyclic edge-connectivity of a graph $G$ is the least $k$ such that there exists a set of $k$ edges whose removal disconnects $G$ into components where every component contains a cycle. We show that for graphs of minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Sinan G. Aksoy , Mark Kempton , Stephen J. Young

We prove that for every integer $d \ge 3$, the median eigenvalues of any graph of maximum degree $d$ are bounded above by $\sqrt{d-1}$. We also prove that, in three separate cases, the median eigenvalues of a graph of maximum degree $d$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Hricha Acharya , Zilin Jiang , Shengtong Zhang

Let $\mathscr{G}_{n,\beta}$ be the set of graphs of order $n$ with given matching number $\beta$. Let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the degrees of the graph $G$ and $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of the graph $G$. The largest eigenvalue…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Xiying Yuan , Zhenan Shao

For a simple connected graph $G$ of order $n$ having distance Laplacian eigenvalues $ \rho^{L}_{1}\geq \rho^{L}_{2}\geq \cdots \geq \rho^{L}_{n}$, the distance Laplacian energy $DLE(G)$ is defined as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Hilal A. Ganie , Rezwan Ul Shaban , Bilal A. Rather , S. Pirzada

Motivated by the linear time algorithm that locates the eigenvalues of a cograph G [10], we investigate the multiplicity of eigenvalue for \lambda \neq -1,0. For cographs with balanced cotrees we determine explicitly the highest value for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Luiz Emilio Allem , Fernando Tura

Let $\eta_{1}\ge \eta_{2}\ge\cdots\ge \eta_{n}$ be the eigenavalues of $\mathcal{ABS}$ matrix. In this paper, we characterize connected graphs with $\mathcal{ABS}$ eigenvalue $\eta_{n}>-1$. As a result, we determine all connected graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Swathi Shetty , B. R. Rakshith , Sayinath Udupa N.

Let $\lambda_1(G)\ge \lambda_2(G)\ge \cdots \ge \lambda_n(G)$ denote the adjacency eigenvalues of a graph $G$ of order $n$. We prove that for every $k\geq 2$ and every graph $G$ on $n\geq k$ vertices, $$ \lambda_k(G)\le…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Tanay Wakhare

Let $G$ be a simple graph with vertex set $V(G) = \{v_1, v_2,..., v_n\}$. The Randi\'{c} matrix of $G$, denoted by $R(G)$, is defined as the $n\times n$ matrix whose $(i,j)$-entry is $(d_id_j)^{\frac{-1}{2}}$ if $v_i$ and $v_j$ are adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Saeid Alikhani , Nima Ghanbari

For a connected graph $G$ with order $n$, let $e(G)$ represent the number of its distinct eigenvalues, and let $d$ denote its diameter. We denote the eigenvalue multiplicity of $\mu$ in $G$ by $m_G(\mu)$. It is well established that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Songnian Xu

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices. The Gallai number $Gal(G)$ of $G$ is the size of the smallest set of vertices that meets every maximum path in $G$. Gr\"unbaum constructed a graph $G$ with $Gal(G)=3$. Very recently, Long,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Henry Kierstead , Eric Ren

We use two variational techniques to prove upper bounds for sums of the lowest several eigenvalues of matrices associated with finite, simple, combinatorial graphs. These include estimates for the adjacency matrix of a graph and for both…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Evans M. Harell , Joachim Stubbe

For a simple graph $G$ with adjacency matrix $A(G)$, let $\pi(G,x):=\mathrm{per}(xI-A(G))$ be its permanental polynomial with roots $\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_n \in \mathbb{C}$, and define the permanental energy $E_{\mathrm{per}}(G):=\sum_{i=1}^n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Priyanshu Pant , Ranveer Singh

The toughness $t(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is defined as $t(G)=\min\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\}$, in which the minimum is taken over all proper subsets $S\subset V(G)$ such that $c(G-S)>1$, where $c(G-S)$ denotes the number of components of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Xiaofeng Gu