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The Harary index of a graph $G$ is recently introduced topological index, defined on the reverse distance matrix as $H(G)=\sum_{u,v \in V(G)}\frac{1}{d(u,v)}$, where $d(u,v)$ is the length of the shortest path between two distinct vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Aleksandar Ili\' c , Guihai Yu , Lihua Feng

Given a graph $G$, let $\lambda_3$ denote the third largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we prove various results towards the conjecture that $\lambda_3(G) \le \frac{|V(G)|}{3}$, motivated by a question of Nikiforov.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Giacomo Leonida , Sida Li

Let $G$ be a connected graph and let $k$ be a positive integer. Let $T$ be a spanning tree of $G$. The leaf degree of a vertex $v\in V(T)$ is defined as the number of leaves adjacent to $v$ in $T$. The leaf degree of $T$ is the maximum leaf…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Sufang Wang , Wei Zhang

Let $G$ be a strongly connected digraph with $n$ vertices and $m$ arcs. For any real $\alpha\in[0,1]$, the $A_\alpha$ matrix of a digraph $G$ is defined as $$A_\alpha(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G),$$ where $A(G)$ is the adjacency matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Zengzhao Xu , Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

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 an $n$-vertex graph, and let $\lambda(G)$ and $\lambda_n(G)$ denote the largest and smallest eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. Write $e(G)$ for the number of edges of $G$, $d(G)=2e(G)/n$ for its average degree, and $T_r(n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Lele Liu , Bo Ning

Let $\mathcal{G}$ be the set of simple graphs (or multigraphs) $G$ such that for each $G \in \mathcal{G}$ there exists at least two non-empty disjoint proper subsets $V_{1},V_{2}\subseteq V(G)$ satisfying $V(G)\setminus(V_{1} \cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Cunxiang Duan , Ligong Wang , Xiangxiang Liu

The eccentricity of a vertex $v$ in a graph $G$ is the maximum distance from $v$ to any other vertex. The vertices whose eccentricity are equal to the diameter (the maximum eccentricity) of $G$ are called peripheral vertices. In trees the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Ya-Hong Chen , Hua Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

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

An equitable $(t,k,d)$-tree-coloring of a graph $G$ is a coloring to vertices of $G$ such that the sizes of any two color classes differ by at most one and the subgraph induced by each color class is a forest of maximum degree at most $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Jian-Liang Wu , Xin Zhang , Hailun Li

We introduce the notion of \emph{bounded diameter arboricity}. Specifically, the \emph{diameter-$d$ arboricity} of a graph is the minimum number $k$ such that the edges of the graph can be partitioned into $k$ forests each of whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Martin Merker , Luke Postle

We analyse the eigenvectors of the adjacency matrix of a random inhomogeneous graph constructed from a specified degree sequence. We assume that the empirical degree sequence has bounded mean and variance. We show that near the edges of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Thomas Buc-d'Alché , Antti Knowles

For a graph $G$ with domination number $\gamma$, Hedetniemi, Jacobs and Trevisan [European Journal of Combinatorics 53 (2016) 66-71] proved that $m_{G}[0,1)\leq \gamma$, where $m_{G}[0,1)$ means the number of Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Jiaxin Guo , Jie Xue , Ruifang Liu

McKay proved that the limiting spectral measures of the ensembles of $d$-regular graphs with $N$ vertices converge to Kesten's measure as $N\to\infty$. In this paper we explore the case of weighted graphs. More precisely, given a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Leo Goldmakher , Cap Khoury , Steven J. Miller , Kesinee Ninsuwan

For a given graph G and integers b,f >= 0, let S be a subset of vertices of G of size b+1 such that the subgraph of G induced by S is connected and S can be separated from other vertices of G by removing f vertices. We prove that every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-05-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Yngve Villanger

We establish maximal trees and graphs for the difference of average distance and proximity proving thus the corresponding conjecture posed in [4]. We also establish maximal trees for the difference of average eccentricity and remoteness and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Jelena Sedlar

In this work, we study some statistical properties of the extreme eigenstates of the randomly-weighted adjacency matrices of random graphs. We focus on two random graph models: Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi (ER) graphs and random geometric graphs…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-17 C. T Martínez Martínez , J. A. Méndez Bermúdez

We determine the tree which maximizes the distance between characteristic set and subtree core over all trees on $n$ vertices. The asymptotic nature of this distance is also discussed. The problem of extremizing the distance between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Dinesh Pandey , Kamal Lochan Patra

Many well-studied problems in extremal combinatorics deal with the maximum possible size of a family of objects in which every pair of objects satisfies a given restriction. One problem of this type was recently raised by Alon, Gujgiczer,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Lior Gishboliner , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov

We prove the sufficiency of the Linear Superposition Principle for linear trees, which characterizes the spectra achievable by a real symmetric matrix whose underlying graph is a linear tree. The necessity was previously proven in 2014.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Tanay Wakhare , Charles R. Johnson