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We introduce a closure technique for Hamilton-connectedness of $\{K_{1,3},\Gamma_3\}$-free graphs, where $\Gamma_3$ is the graph obtained by joining two vertex-disjoint triangles with a path of length $3$. The closure turns a claw-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Adam Kabela , Zdeněk Ryjáček , Mária Skyvová , Petr Vrána

Since planar triangle-free graphs are 3-colourable, such a graph with n vertices has an independent set of size at least n/3. We prove that unless the graph contains a certain obstruction, its independence number is at least n/(3-epsilon)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Zdeněk Dvořák , Jordan Venters

The celebrated Hadwiger's conjecture states that if a graph contains no $K_{t+1}$ minor then it is $t$-colourable. If true, it would in particular imply that every $n$-vertex $K_{t+1}$-minor-free graph has an independent set of size at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Zdeněk Dvořák , Liana Yepremyan

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency eigenvalues $\lambda_1 \geq \cdots \geq \lambda_n$. Both $\lambda_1 + \lambda_n$ and the odd girth of $G$ can be seen as measures of the bipartiteness of $G$. Csikv\'ari proved in 2022 that for odd girth 5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Aida Abiad , Vladislav Taranchuk , Thijs van Veluw

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

For integer $k\geq2,$ a graph $G$ is called $k$-leaf-connected if $|V(G)|\geq k+1$ and given any subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ with $|S|=k,$ $G$ always has a spanning tree $T$ such that $S$ is precisely the set of leaves of $T.$ Thus a graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Tingyan Ma , Guoyan Ao , Ruifang Liu , Ligong Wang , Yang Hu

In the past decades, many scholars concerned which edge-extremal problems have spectral analogues? Recently, Wang, Kang and Xue showed an interesting result on $F$-free graphs [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 159 (2023) 20--41]. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zhenzhen Lou , Changxiang He

In his survey "Beyond graph energy: Norms of graphs and matrices" (2016), Nikiforov proposed two problems concerning characterizing the graphs that attain equality in a lower bound and in a upper bound for the energy of a graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-06 N. E. Arévalo , R. O. Braga , V. M. Rodrigues

In recent work on equiangular lines, Jiang, Tidor, Yuan, Zhang, and Zhao showed that a connected bounded degree graph has sublinear second eigenvalue multiplicity. More generally they show that there cannot be too many eigenvalues near the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Mikolaj Fraczyk , Ben Hayes , Madhu Sudan , Yufei Zhao

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

We show that the median eigenvalues of every connected graph of maximum degree at most three, except for the Heawood graph, are at most $1$ in absolute value, resolving open problems posed by Fowler and Pisanski, and by Mohar.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Hricha Acharya , Benjamin Jeter , Zilin Jiang

This note presents a new spectral version of the graph Zarankiewicz problem: How large can be the maximum eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian of a graph of order $n$ that does not contain a specified complete bipartite subgraph. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Maria Aguieiras A. de Freitas , Vladimir Nikiforov , Laura Patuzzi

The difference between the two largest eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a graph $G$ is called the spectral gap of $G.$ If $G$ is a regular graph, then its spectral gap is equal to algebraic connectivity. Abdi, Ghorbani and Imrich, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Ruifang Liu , Jie Xue

The existence of Hamiltonian cycles in 1-planar graphs with higher connectivity has attracted considerable attention. Recently, the authors and Dong proved that 4-connected 1-planar chordal graphs are Hamiltonian-connected. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Licheng Zhang , Shengxiang Lv , Yuanqiu Huang

Chung, Graham, and Wilson proved that a graph is quasirandom if and only if there is a large gap between its first and second largest eigenvalue. Recently, the authors extended this characterization to k-uniform hypergraphs, but only for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 John Lenz , Dhruv Mubayi

We offer a new method for proving that the maximal eigenvalue of the normalized graph Laplacian of a graph with $n$ vertices is at least $\frac{n+1}{n-1}$ provided the graph is not complete and that equality is attained if and only if the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jürgen Jost , Raffaella Mulas , Florentin Münch

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

In this article, we establish some bounds involving the largest two distance Pareto eigenvalues of a connected graph. Also we characterize all possible values for smallest six distance Pareto eigenvalues of a connected graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Deepak Sarma

In this paper, we classify distance regular graphs such that all of its second largest local eigenvalues are at most one. Also we discuss the consequences for the smallest eigenvalue of a distance-regular graph. These extend a result by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Jack H. Koolen , Hyonju Yu

An eigenvalue $\lambda$ of a signed graph $S$ of order $n$ is called a main eigenvalue if its eigenspace is not orthogonal to the all-ones vector $j$. Characterizing signed graphs with exactly $k$ $(1\le k\le n)$ distinct main eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Zenan Du , Fenjin Liu , Hechao Liu , Jifu Lin , Wenxu Yang