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We exhibit a new construction of edge-regular graphs with regular cliques that are not strongly regular. The infinite family of graphs resulting from this construction includes an edge-regular graph with parameters $(24,8,2)$. We also show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Gary R. W. Greaves , J. H. Koolen

The complete bipartite graph $K_{1,3}$ is called a claw. The properties of claw-free graphs have attracted considerable attention, with research on claw-free planar graphs tracing back to Plummer's work in 1989. In this paper, we extend…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Licheng Zhang , Zhangdong Ouyang , Yuanqiu Huang

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 G be a graph with n vertices and mu(G) be the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of G. We study how large mu(G) can be when G does not contain cycles and paths of specified order. In particular, we determine the maximum spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-01 Vladimir Nikiforov

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex not in $S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. If, in addition, $S$ is an independent set, then $S$ is an independent dominating set. The independent domination number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-10 A. Akbari , S. Akbari , A. Doosthosseini , Z. Hadizadeh , Michael A. Henning , A. Naraghi

A graph with at most two vertices of the same degree is called antiregular (Merris 2003), maximally nonregular (Zykov 1990) or quasiperfect (Behzad, Chartrand 1967). If s_{k} is the number of independent sets of cardinality k in a graph G,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-07-07 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

For an integer $k\geq 1$, a graph is called a $k$-circulant if its automorphism group contains a cyclic semiregular subgroup with $k$ orbits on the vertices. We show that, if $k$ is even, there exist infinitely many cubic arc-transitive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Michael Giudici , István Kovács , Cai Heng Li , Gabriel Verret

This paper gives tight upper bound on the largest eigenvalue q(G) of the signless Laplacian of graphs with no paths of given order. The main ingredient of our proof is a stability result of its own interest, about graphs with large minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-21 Vladimir Nikiforov , Xiying Yuan

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

A graph is called a chain graph if it is bipartite and the neighborhoods of the vertices in each color class form a chain with respect to inclusion. Alazemi, Andeli\'c and Simi\'c conjectured that no chain graph shares a non-zero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Ebrahim Ghorbani

The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture asserts that the edges of every graph without isolated edges can be weighted with $1$, $2$ and $3$ so that adjacent vertices receive distinct weighted degrees. This is open in general. We prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Julien Bensmail , Jakub Przybyło

Extremal problems concerning the number of independent sets or complete subgraphs in a graph have been well studied in recent years. Cutler and Radcliffe proved that among graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree at most $r$, where $n =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

Quantum symmetry of a graph $C^{*}$-algebra $C^{*}(\Gamma)$ corresponding to a finite graph $\Gamma$ has been explored by several mathematicians within different categories in the past few years. In this article, we establish that there are…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Ujjal Karmakar , Arnab Mandal

We study a counting version of Cycle Double Cover Conjecture. We discuss why it is more interesting to count circuits (i.e., graphs isomorphic to $C_k$ for some $k$) instead of cycles (graphs with all degrees even). We give an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Radek Hušek , Robert Šámal

Let $C_{n,g}$ be the number of rooted cubic maps with $2n$ vertices on the orientable surface of genus $g$. We show that the sequence $(C_{n,g}:g\ge 0)$ is asymptotically normal with mean and variance asymptotic to $(1/2)(n-\ln n)$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Zhicheng Gao

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

A Neumaier graph is an edge-regular graph with a regular clique. Such a graph is said to have parameters $(v,k,\lambda;e,s)$ if it is a $k$-regular graph on $v$ vertices having a clique of size $s$ such that every edge is contained in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Bart De Bruyn , Rhys J. Evans , Sergey Goryainov , Jack Koolen

We show that every cubic bridgeless graph G has at least 2^(|V(G)|/3656) perfect matchings. This confirms an old conjecture of Lovasz and Plummer. This version of the paper uses a different definition of a burl from the journal version of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Louis Esperet , Frantisek Kardos , Andrew King , Daniel Kral , Serguei Norine

Let $(n^+, n^0, n^-)$ denote the inertia of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. Nordhaus-Gaddum bounds are known for inertia, except for an upper bound for $n^-$. We conjecture that for any graph \[ n^-(G) + n^-(\bar{G}) \le 1.5(n - 1), \] and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Pawel Wocjan , Clive Elphick

We describe an algorithm for the exhaustive generation of non-isomorphic graphs with a given number $k \ge 0$ of hamiltonian cycles, which is especially efficient for small $k$. Our main findings, combining applications of this algorithm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Jan Goedgebeur , Barbara Meersman , Carol T. Zamfirescu