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A pancyclic graph is a simple graph containing a cycle of length $k$ for all $3\leq k\leq n$. Let $m(n)$ be the minimum number of edges of all pancyclic graphs on $n$ vertices. Exact values are given for $m(n)$ for $n\leq 37$, combining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Sean Griffin

An $(n,m)$-graph is characterised by having $n$ types of arcs and $m$ types of edges. A homomorphism of an $(n,m)$-graph $G$ to an $(n,m)$-graph $H$, is a vertex mapping that preserves adjacency, direction, and type. The $(n,m)$-chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Sandip Das , Abhiruk Lahiri , Soumen Nandi , Sagnik Sen , S Taruni

We make progress on three long standing conjectures from the 1960s about path and cycle decompositions of graphs. Gallai conjectured that any connected graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into at most $\left\lceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-09 António Girão , Bertille Granet , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Let $ \Phi=(G, \varphi) $ be a connected complex unit gain graph ($ \mathbb{T} $-gain graph) on a simple graph $ G $ with $ n $ vertices and maximum vertex degree $ \Delta $. The associated adjacency matrix and degree matrix are denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Aniruddha Samanta , M. Rajesh Kannan

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

The standard notion of the Laplacian of a graph is generalized to the setting of a graph with the extra structure of a ``transmission`` system. A transmission system is a mathematical representation of a means of transmitting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Sylvain E. Cappell , Edward Y. Miller

The energy of a graph G is equal to the sum of absolute values of the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of G, whereas the Laplacian energy of a graph G is equal to the sum of the absolute value of the difference between the eigenvalues of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Nilanjan De

Let $G$ be a finite connected simple graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. We show that, when $G$ is not bipartite, the number of $4$-cycles contained in $G$ is at most $\binom{m-n+1}{2}$. We further provide a short combinatorial proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Takayuki Hibi , Aki Mori , Hidefumi Ohsugi

In this paper, we investigate some relations between the invariants (including vertex and edge connectivity and forwarding indices) of a graph and its Laplacian eigenvalues. In addition, we present a sufficient condition for the existence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Rong-Ying Pan , Jing Yan , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $C'=v_0v_1\cdots v_{p-1}v_0$ a vertex sequence of $G$ with $p\geq 3$ ($v_i\neq v_j$ for all $i,j=0,1,\ldots,p-1$, $i\neq j$). If for any successive vertices $v_i$, $v_{i+1}$ on $C'$, either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Ruonan Li , Bo Ning , Shenggui Zhang

In this paper, we show that for a graph of order $n$, where $n\ge 5$, if the signless Laplacian index is larger than or equal to certain value depending on $n$, then the graph contains a doubly chorded cycle, where the chords incident to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jin Cai , Bo Zhou

Given a connected graph $G$, the Randi\'c index $R(G)$ is the sum of $\tfrac{1}{\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}}$ over all edges $\{u,v\}$ of $G$, where $d(u)$ and $d(v)$ are the degree of vertices $u$ and $v$ respectively. Let $q(G)$ be the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Bo Ning , Xing Peng

A $(k,g,\underline{g+1})$-graph is a $k$-regular graph of girth $g$ which does not contain cycles of length $g+1$. Such graphs are known to exist for all parameter pairs $k \geq 3, g \geq 3 $, and we focus on determining the orders…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Leonard Chidiebere Eze , Robert Jajcay , Jorik Jooken

We study the individual behavior of the eigenvalues of the laplacian matrices of the cyclic graph of order $n$, where one edge has weight $\alpha\in\mathbb{C}$, with $\operatorname{Re}(\alpha)<0$, and all the others have weights $1$. This…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 S. M. Grudsky , E. A. Maximenko , A. Soto-González

This paper proves that if $G$ is a graph (parallel edges allowed) of maximum degree 3, then $\chi_c'(G) \leq 11/3$ provided that $G$ does not contain $H_1$ or $H_2$ as a subgraph, where $H_1$ and $H_2$ are obtained by subdividing one edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Peyman Afshani , Mahsa Ghandehari , Mahya Ghandehari , Hamed Hatami , Ruzbeh Tusserkani , Xuding Zhu

The $k$-token graph $F_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-subsets of vertices from $G$, two of which being adjacent whenever their symmetric difference is a pair of adjacent vertices in $G$. It is a known result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Mónica. A. Reyes , Cristina Dalfó , Miquel Àngel Fiol , Arnau Messegué

Several variants of the graph Laplacian have been introduced to model non-local diffusion processes, which allow a random walker to {\textquotedblleft jump\textquotedblright} to non-neighborhood nodes, most notably the transformed path…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Davide Bianchi , Marco Donatelli , Fabio Durastante , Mariarosa Mazza

Let $G$ be a connected graph and $\mathcal{P}(G)$ a graph parameter. We say that $\mathcal{P}(G)$ is feasible if $\mathcal{P}(G)$ satisfies the following properties: (I) $\mathcal{P}(G)\leq \mathcal{P}(G_{uv})$, if $G_{uv}=G[u\to v]$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Jiangdong Ai , Hui Lei , Bo Ning , Yongtang Shi

We prove the following theorem. Let $r\ge 4$ be an integer, and $G$ be a $K_{1,r}$-free $r$-edge-connected $r$-regular graph. Then, for every set $W$ of even number of vertices of $G$ such that the distance between any two vertices of $W$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Yoshimi Egawa , Mikio Kano , Kenta Ozeki

The $3$-path isolation number of a connected $n$-vertex graph $G$, denoted by $\iota(G,P_3)$, is the size of a smallest subset $D$ of the vertex set of $G$ such that the closed neighbourhood $N[D]$ of $D$ in $G$ intersects the vertex sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Karl Bartolo , Peter Borg , Dayle Scicluna