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In this paper we study several problems concerning the number of homomorphisms of trees. We give an algorithm for the number of homomorphisms from a tree to any graph by the Transfer-matrix method. By using this algorithm and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-26 Péter Csikvári , Zhicong Lin

Let $G$ be a triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices with adjacency matrix eigenvalues $\mu_1(G)\geq \mu_2(G)\geq \dots \geq \mu_n(G)$. In this paper we study the quantity $$\mu_1(G)+\mu_n(G).$$ We prove that for any triangle-free graph $G$ we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Péter Csikvári

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Xu Chen , Yinfen Zhu , Guoping Wang

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 $G$ be a finite simple graph. The line graph $L(G)$ represents the adjacencies between edges of $G$. We define first the line simplicial complex $\Delta_L(G)$ of $G$ containing Gallai and anti-Gallai simplicial complexes…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Imran Ahmed , Shahid Muhmood

Let $\Lambda(T)$ denote the set of leaves in a tree $T$. One natural problem is to look for a spanning tree $T$ of a given graph $G$ such that $\Lambda(T)$ is as large as possible. This problem is called maximum leaf number, and it is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Peter Bradshaw , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Ladislav Stacho

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be a diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of $G$ as \begin{equation*} A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha G)+(1-\alpha)A(G),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Chang Liu , Zimo Yan , Jianping Li

Let $G$ be a simple graph or hypergraph, and let $A(G),L(G),Q(G)$ be the adjacency, Laplacian and signless Laplacian tensors of $G$ respectively. The largest $H$-eigenvalues (resp., the spectral radii) of $L(G),Q(G)$ are denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Yi-Zheng Fan , Murad-ul-Islam Khan , Ying-Ying Tan

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

The graphs with all equal negative or positive eigenvalues are special kind in the spectral graph theory. In this article, several iterated line graphs $\mathcal{L}^k(G)$ with all equal negative eigenvalues $-2$ are characterized for $k\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Harishchandra S. Ramane , B. Parvathalu , Daneshwari Patil , K. Ashoka

Let $q\left( G\right) $ be the $Q$-index (the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian) of $G$. Let $S_{n,k}$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a complete graph of order $k$ to each vertex of an independent set of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Xiying Yuan

The spread of a real symmetric matrix is defined as the difference between its largest and smallest eigenvalue. The study of graph-related matrices has attracted considerable attention, leading to a substantial body of findings. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Lele Liu , Yi-Zheng Fan , Yi Wang , Wenyan Wang

For a graph $G$, the spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we give three lammas on $\rho(G)$ when $G$ contains a spanning complete bipartite graph. Using these lemmas and typical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Wenqian Zhang

Let $G$ be a graph. For a subset $X$ of $V(G)$, the switching $\sigma$ of $G$ is the signed graph $G^{\sigma}$ obtained from $G$ by reversing the signs of all edges between $X$ and $V(G)\setminus X$. Let $A(G^{\sigma})$ be the adjacency…

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

Let $G$ be a graph and let $\mathrm{cl}(G)$ be the number of distinct induced cycle lengths in $G$. We show that for $c,t\in \mathbb N$, every graph $G$ that does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $K_{t+1}$ or $K_{t,t}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Maria Chudnovsky , Ilya Maier

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

We prove a general upper bound on the $k$-th adjacency eigenvalue of a graph. For $k\ge 2$, we show that \[ \lambda_k(G)\le \frac{(k-2)\sqrt{k+1}+2}{2k(k-1)}\,n-1 \] for every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. We build on a recent approach that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Varun Sivashankar

For a graph $G$, we associate a family of real symmetric matrices, $S(G)$, where for any $A\in S(G)$, the location of the nonzero off-diagonal entries of $A$ are governed by the adjacency structure of $G$. Let $q(G)$ be the minimum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Shaun Fallat , Seyed Ahmad Mojallal

The general spectral radius of a graph $G$, denoted by $\Theta(G,\alpha)$, is the maximal eigenvalue of $M_{\alpha}(G)=A(G)+\alpha D(G)$ $(\alpha\geq 0)$, where $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ are the adjacency matrix and the diagonal matrix of vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Yufei Huang , Muhuo Liu

Let $m_GI$ denote the number of Laplacian eigenvalues of a graph $G$ in an interval $I$ and let $\alpha(G)$ denote the independence number of $G$. In this paper, we determine the classes of graphs that satisfy the condition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Jinwon Choi , Sunyo Moon , Seungkook Park