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The study of eigenvalue multiplicities plays a central role in the spectral theory of signed graphs, extending several classical results from the unsigned setting. While most existing work focuses on the nullity of a signed graph (the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Monther R. Alfuraidan , Suliman Khan

We use two variational techniques to prove upper bounds for sums of the lowest several eigenvalues of matrices associated with finite, simple, combinatorial graphs. These include estimates for the adjacency matrix of a graph and for both…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Evans M. Harell , Joachim Stubbe

In 2015, Dankelmann and Bau proved that for every bridgeless graph $G$ of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ there is an orientation of diameter at most $11\frac{n}{\delta+1}+9$. In 2016, Surmacs reduced this bound to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Garner Cochran

This article is dedicated to the study of the acylindrical hyperbolicity of automorphism groups of graph products of groups. Our main result is that, if $\Gamma$ is a finite graph which contains at least two vertices and is not a join and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Anthony Genevois

The cycle space $\mathcal{C}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as the linear space spanned by all cycles in $G$. For an integer $k\ge 3$, let $\mathcal{C}_k (G)$ denote the subspace of $\mathcal{C}(G)$ generated by the cycles of length exactly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Xinmin Hou , Zhi Yin

We introduce and study a generalization of conformal rigidity for graphs. A graph is $k$-conformally rigid if the uniform edge weights simultaneously maximize the sum of the $k$ smallest nontrivial Laplacian eigenvalues and minimize the sum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Henrique Assumpção , Gabriel Coutinho , Chris Godsil

The Graph Reconstruction Conjecture famously posits that any undirected graph on at least three vertices is determined up to isomorphism by its family of (unlabeled) induced subgraphs. At present, the conjecture admits partial resolutions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Julian Asilis , Xi Chen , Dutch Hansen , Shang-Hua Teng

Given a collection $\mathcal{G}=(G_1,\dots, G_h)$ of graphs on the same vertex set $V$ of size $n$, an $h$-edge graph $H$ on the vertex set $V$ is a $\mathcal{G}$-transversal if there exists a bijection $\lambda : E(H) \rightarrow [h]$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Seonghyuk Im , Jaehoon Kim , Hong Liu

For a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, let $ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which contains none of the members of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. A longstanding problem in extremal graph theory asks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

A countable, bounded degree graph is almost finite if it has a tiling with isomorphic copies of finitely many F\o lner sets, and we call it strongly almost finite, if the tiling can be randomized so that the probability that a vertex is on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Gábor Elek , Ádám Timár

The $A_{\alpha}$-matrix of a graph $G$ is the convex linear combination of the adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and the diagonal matrix of vertex degrees $D(G)$, i.e., $A_{\alpha}(G) = \alpha D(G) + (1 - \alpha)A(G)$, where $0\leq\alpha \leq1$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Yanting Zhang , Ligong Wang

Let $\alpha'$ and $\mu_i$ denote the matching number of a non-empty simple graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and the $i$-th smallest eigenvalue of its Laplacian matrix, respectively. In this paper, we prove a tight lower bound $$\alpha' \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Xiaofeng Gu , Muhuo Liu

We prove two results: 1. A graph $G$ on at least seven vertices with a vertex $v$ such that $G-v$ is planar and $t$ triangles satisfies $|E(G)| \leq 3|V(G)|- 9 + t/3$. 2. For $p=2,3,\ldots,9$, a triangle-free graph $G$ on at least $2p-5$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Robin Thomas , Youngho Yoo

A graph $ G $ is minimally $ t $-tough if the toughness of $ G $ is $ t $ and deletion of any edge from $ G $ decreases its toughness. Katona et al. conjectured that the minimum degree of any minimally $ t $-tough graph is $ \lceil 2t\rceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Xiaomin Hu , Hui Ma , Weihua Yang

We develop a theory for the existence of perfect matchings in hypergraphs under quite general conditions. Informally speaking, the obstructions to perfect matchings are geometric, and are of two distinct types: 'space barriers' from convex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Peter Keevash , Richard Mycroft

Let $G$ be a graph on an even number $n$ of vertices and let ${\cal M}_G$ be the collection of perfect matchings in $G$. Dirac's theorem says that if the minimum degree $\delta(G)$ of $G$ is at least $n/2$, then ${\cal M}_G$ is guaranteed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Ross J. Kang , Clément Legrand-Duchesne

The aspect ratio of a (positively) weighted graph $G$ is the ratio of its maximum edge weight to its minimum edge weight. Aspect ratio commonly arises as a complexity measure in graph algorithms, especially related to the computation of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aaron Bernstein , Greg Bodwin , Nicole Wein

A graph $G$ is minimally $t$-tough if the toughness of $G$ is $t$ and the deletion of any edge from $G$ decreases the toughness. Kriesell conjectured that for every minimally $1$-tough graph the minimum degree $\delta(G)=2$. We show that in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Gyula Y. Katona , Dániel Soltész , Kitti Varga

Graph alignment - identifying node correspondences between two graphs - is a fundamental problem with applications in network analysis, biology, and privacy research. While substantial progress has been made in aligning correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jakob Maier , Laurent Massoulié

We show that asymptotic equivalence, in a strong form, holds between two random graph models with slightly differing edge probabilities under substantially weaker conditions than what might naively be expected. One application is a simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-02-13 Svante Janson