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For a fixed positive integer $k$ and a graph $G$, let $\lambda_k(G)$ denote the $k$-th largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$. In 2017, Tait and Tobin proved that the maximum $\lambda_1(G)$ among all outerplanar graphs on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-18 George Brooks , Maggie Gu , Jack Hyatt , William Linz , Linyuan Lu

Sharp bounds on the least eigenvalue of an arbitrary graph are presented. Necessary and sufficient (just sufficient) conditions for the lower (upper) bound to be attained are deduced using edge clique partitions. As an application, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Domingos M. Cardoso , Inês Serôdio Costa , Rui Duarte

We show that every cubic bridgeless graph with n vertices has at least 3n/4-10 perfect matchings. This is the first bound that differs by more than a constant from the maximal dimension of the perfect matching polytope.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Louis Esperet , Daniel Kral , Petr Skoda , Riste Skrekovski

Let $spex(n,H_{minor})$ denote the maximum spectral radius of $n$-vertex $H$-minor free graphs. The problem on determining this extremal value can be dated back to the early 1990s. Up to now, it has been solved for $n$ sufficiently large…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

The spectrum of a graph is closely related to many graph parameters. In particular, the spectral gap of a regular graph which is the difference between its valency and second eigenvalue, is widely seen an algebraic measure of connectivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Masato Mimura , Hiroshi Nozaki , Takayuki Okuda

We consider higher-dimensional generalizations of the normalized Laplacian and the adjacency matrix of graphs and study their eigenvalues for the Linial-Meshulam model $X^k(n,p)$ of random $k$-dimensional simplicial complexes on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Anna Gundert , Uli Wagner

We study upper bounds for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Steklov problem defined on finite graphs with boundary. For finite graphs with boundary included in a Cayley graph associated to a group of polynomial growth, we give an upper…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Hélène Perrin

We study gaps in the spectra of the adjacency matrices of large finite cubic graphs. It is known that the gap intervals $(2 \sqrt{2},3)$ and $[-3,-2)$ achieved in cubic Ramanujan graphs and line graphs are maximal. We give constraints on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Alicia J. Kollár , Peter Sarnak

Let $m$ be a positive integer. Brualdi and Hoffman proposed the problem to determine the (connected) graphs with maximum spectral radius in a given graph class and they posed a conjecture for the class of graphs with given size $m$. After…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees of $G$. For any real $\alpha \in [0,1]$, Nikiforov defined the $A_\alpha$-matrix of a graph $G$ as $A_\alpha(G)=\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jiayu Lou , Ligong Wang , Ming Yuan

The problem of characterizing graphs with a prescribed number of main eigenvalues is a long-standing problem in spectral graph theory. Although some constructions are known, only a few produce infinite families of simple connected graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sakshi Jain , Y. M. Borse , R. Barabde

In accordance with the Cameron-Goethals-Seidel-Shult Classification Theorem, we extend the characterization of Hoffman colorability of line graphs from (Abiad, Bosma, Van Veluw, 2025) to all connected graphs with smallest eigenvalue at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Bart De Bruyn , Thijs van Veluw

For any real $\alpha \in [0,1]$, Nikiforov defined the $A_\alpha$-matrix of a graph $G$ as $A_\alpha(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G)$, where $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ are the adjacency matrix and the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Jiayu Lou , Ligong Wang , Ming Yuan

An almost self-centered graph is a connected graph of order $n$ with exactly $n-2$ central vertices, and an almost peripheral graph is a connected graph of order $n$ with exactly $n-1$ peripheral vertices. We determine (1) the maximum girth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan

We complete the determination of the signed graphs for which the adjacency matrix has all but at most two eigenvalues equal to $\pm 1$. The unsigned graphs and the disconnected, the bipartite and the complete signed graphs with this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Willem Haemers , Hatice Topcu

This is a note on three graph parameters motivated by the Euler-Poincare characteristic for simplicial complex. We show those three graph parameters of a given connected graph $G$ is greater than or equal to that of the complete graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Hanbaek Lyu

We analyze graphs attaining the extreme values of various spectral indices in the class of all simple connected graphs, as well as in the class of graphs which are not complete multipartite graphs. We also present results on density of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Sona Pavlikova , Daniel Sevcovic , Jozef Siran

We analyse an extremal question on the degrees of the link graphs of a finite regular graph, that is, the subgraphs induced by non-trivial spheres. We show that if $G$ is $d$-regular and connected but not complete then some link graph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Itai Benjamini , John Haslegrave

We obtain eigenvalue equations satisfied by various elliptic modular graphs with five links where two of the vertices are unintegrated. Solving them leads to several non--trivial algebraic identities between these graphs.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-28 Anirban Basu

An edge-coloring of a graph is called asymmetric if the only automorphism which preserves it is the identity. Lehner, Pil\'{s}niak, and Stawiski proved that all connected regular graphs except $K_2$ admit an asymmetric edge-coloring with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Mariusz Grech , Andrzej Kisielewicz