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We establish closed-form enumeration formulas for chromatic feature vectors of 2-trees under the bichromatic triangle constraint. These efficiently computable structural features derive from constrained graph colorings where each triangle…

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A stability result due to Ren, Wang, Wang and Yang [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 38 (2024)] shows that if $3\le r \le 2k$ and $n\ge 318 (r-2)^2k$, and $G$ is a $C_{2k+1}$-free graph on $n$ vertices with $e(G)\ge \lfloor {(n-r+1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +{r…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Lantao Zou , Yongtao Li , Yuejian Peng

It is well-known that eigenvalues of graphs can be used to describe structural properties and parameters of graphs. A theorem of Nosal states that if $G$ is a triangle-free graph with $m$ edges, then $\lambda (G)\le \sqrt{m}$, equality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Yongtao Li , Yuejian Peng

Let $G$ be an unicyclic graph of order $n$ and let $Q_G(x)= det(xI-Q(G))={matrix} \sum_{i=1}^n (-1)^i \varphi_i x^{n-i}{matrix}$ be the characteristic polynomial of the signless Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$. We give some transformations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Jie Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The aim of this work is to investigate the nonnegative signed domination number $\gamma^{NN}_s$ with emphasis on regular, ($r+1$)-clique-free graphs and trees. We give lower and upper bounds on $\gamma^{NN}_s$ for regular graphs and prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Babak Samadi , Lutz Volkmann

It is well known that the complete multipartite graphs can not be determined by their adjacency spectra. But in this paper, we prove that they can be determined by their distance spectra, which confirms the conjecture proposed by Lin, Hong,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

A well-known open problem in graph theory asks whether Stanley's chromatic symmetric function, a generalization of the chromatic polynomial of a graph, distinguishes between any two non-isomorphic trees. Previous work has proven the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Jake Huryn

A signed graph $\Sigma = (G, \sigma)$ is a graph where the function $\sigma$ assigns either $1$ or $-1$ to each edge of the simple graph $G$. The adjacency matrix of $\Sigma$, denoted by $A(\Sigma)$, is defined canonically. In a recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-06 M. Rajesh Kannan , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

A graph is called a chain graph if it is bipartite and the neighborhoods of the vertices in each color class form a chain with respect to inclusion. Alazemi, Andeli\'c and Simi\'c conjectured that no chain graph shares a non-zero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Ebrahim Ghorbani

A class of graphs is $\chi$-bounded if there is a function $f$ such that every graph $G$ in the class has chromatic number at most $f(\omega(G))$, where $\omega(G)$ is the clique number of $G$; the class is polynomially $\chi$-bounded if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

Let $\Sigma$ be a signed graph where two edges joining the same pair of vertices with opposite signs are allowed. The zero-free chromatic number $\chi^*(\Sigma)$ of $\Sigma$ is the minimum even integer $2k$ such that $G$ admits a proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Wei Wang , Jianguo Qian

Let $\Gamma=(G,\sigma)$ be a signed graph, where $\sigma$ is the sign function on the edges of $G$. The adjacency matrix of $\Gamma=(G, \sigma)$ is a square matrix $A(\Gamma)=A(G, \sigma)=\left(a_{i j}^{\sigma}\right)$, where $a_{i…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 S. Pirzada , Tahir Shamsher , Mushtaq A. Bhat

A class of graphs $\mathcal{G}$ is $\chi$-bounded if there exists a function $f$ such that $\chi(G) \leq f(\omega(G))$ for each graph $G \in \mathcal{G}$, where $\chi(G)$ and $\omega(G)$ are the chromatic and clique number of $G$,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Dibyayan Chakraborty , L. Sunil Chandran , Dalu Jacob , Raji R. Pillai

Suppose $G$ is a simple graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges, and rank $r$. Let $\chi_G(t)=a_0t^n-a_1t^{n-1}+\cdots +(-1)^ra_rt^{n-r}$ be the chromatic polynomial of $G$. For $q,k\in \Bbb{Z}$ and $0\le k\le q+r+1$, we obtain a sharp two-side…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Suijie Wang , Yeong-Nan Yeh , Fengwei Zhou

The chromatic number $\chi$ of a graph is bounded from below by its clique number $\omega,$ but it can be arbitrary large. Perfect graphs are defined by $\chi=\omega$ for all induced subgraphs. An interesting relaxation are $\chi$-bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alexander Engström

We present an algebraic characterization of perfect graphs, i.e., graphs for which the clique number and the chromatic number coincide for every induced subgraph. We show that a graph is perfect if and only if certain nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Cemil Dibek

Given a graph $G$ of order $n$, the $\sigma$-$polynomial$ of $G$ is the generating function $\sigma(G,x) = \sum a_{i}x^{i}$ where $a_{i}$ is the number of partitions of the vertex set of $G$ into $i$ nonempty independent sets. Such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Jason Brown , Aysel Erey

An irreducible element of a commutative ring is absolutely irreducible if no power of it has more than one (essentially different) factorization into irreducibles. In the case of the ring $\text{Int}(D)=\{f\in K[x]\mid f(D)\subseteq D\}$,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Sophie Frisch , Sarah Nakato

Given a finite group G, let cd(G) denote the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of G. The character degree graph of G is defined as the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of the numbers in cd(G),…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Carlo Casolo , Silvio Dolfi , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus

Let $\Phi(x,y)\in\mathbb{C}[x,y]$ be a symmetric polynomial of partial degree $d$. The graph $G(\Phi)$ is defined by taking $\mathbb{C}$ as set of vertices and the points of $\mathbb{V}(\Phi(x,y))$ as edges. We study the following problem:…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Josep M. Brunat , Antonio Montes