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Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. For $\alpha\in[0,1)$, we use $A_{\alpha}(G)$ and $\rho_{\alpha}(G)$ to denote the $A_{\alpha}$-matrix and the $A_{\alpha}$-spectral radius of $G$, respectively. The binding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Sizhong Zhou , Hongxia Liu

The $\{K_{1,1}, K_{1,2},C_m: m\geq3\}$-factor of a graph is a spanning subgraph whose each component is an element of $\{K_{1,1}, K_{1,2},C_m: m\geq3\}$. In this paper, through the graph spectral methods, we establish the lower bound of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fengyun Ren , Shumin Zhang , Ke Wang

A fractional matching of a graph $G$ is a function $f:E(G)\rightarrow [0, 1]$ such that for any $v\in V(G)$, $\sum_{e\in E_{G}(v)}f(e)\leq1$, where $E_{G}(v)=\{e\in E(G): e~ \mbox{is incident with} ~v~\mbox{in}~G\}$.The fractional matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Jing Lou , Ruifang Liu , Guoyan Ao

A graph $G$ is $k$-factor-critical if $G-S$ has a perfect matching for every subset $S \subseteq V(G)$ with $|S|=k$. A spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ is called a $[1,b]$-odd factor if $b \equiv 1 \pmod{2}$ and $d_{H}(v) \in\left\lbrace 1, 3,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Jiaxu Zhong , Yong Lu

A graph is said to be $K_{1,r}$-free if it does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $K_{1,r}$. An $\mathcal{F}$-factor is a spanning subgraph $H$ such that each connected component of $H$ is isomorphic to some graph in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Guowei Dai , Zan-Bo Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhang

Let $G$ be a simple graph. The $k$-th neighborhood of a vertex subset $S \subseteq V(G)$, denoted $\Lambda^k(S)$, is the set of vertices that are adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $S$. The $k$-th binding number $\beta^k(G)$ is defined as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Guantao Chen , Mikhail Lavrov , Yuying Ma , Jennifer Vandenbussche , Hein van der Holst

A graph $G$ is called $k$-factor-critical if after deleting any $k$ vertices the remaining subgraph still has a perfect matching. Fan and Lin [Adv. in Appl. Math. 174 (2026) 103019] posed an adjacency spectral condition for a graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Jiaxu Zhong , Yong Lu

For a graph $G = (V, E)$, a {\em fractional $[a, b]$-factor} is a real valued function $h:E(G)\to [0,1]$ that satisfies $a \le ~ \sum_{e\in E_G(v)} h(e) ~ \le b$ for all $ v\in V(G)$, where $a$ and $b$ are real numbers and $E_G(v)$ denotes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Mikio Kano , Hongliang Lu , Qinglin Yu

For a nonnegative integer $k$, a graph $G$ is said to be $k$-factor-critical if $G-Q$ admits a perfect matching for any $Q\subseteq V(G)$ with $|Q|=k$. In this article, we prove spectral radius conditions for the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Sizhong Zhou , Zhiren Sun , Yuli Zhang

For a graph $G$, the spectral radius of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. A connected factor of $G$ is a connected spanning subgraph of $G$. For example, a spanning tree of $G$ is a 1-connected factor of $G$. Let $G$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Xinying Tang , Wenqian Zhang

Let $G$ denote a graph and $k\geq2$ be an integer. A $\{K_{1,1},K_{1,2},\ldots,K_{1,k},\mathcal{T}(2k+1)\}$-factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph, whose every connected component is isomorphic to an element of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Sizhong Zhou

Let $G$ be a graph and let $g, f$ be nonnegative integer-valued functions defined on $V(G)$ such that $g(v) \le f(v)$ and $g(v) \equiv f(v) \pmod{2}$ for all $v \in V(G)$. A $(g,f)$-parity factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $H$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Donggyu Kim , Suil O

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ with $n\geq25$. A $\{P_3,P_4,P_5\}$-factor is a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that every component of $H$ is isomorphic to an element of $\{P_3,P_4,P_5\}$. Nikiforov introduced the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Yuli Zhang , Sizhong Zhou

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$. A $\{P_{2},C_{3},P_{5},\mathcal{T}(3)\}$-factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph of $G$ such that each component is isomorphic to a member in $\{P_{2},C_{3},P_{5},\mathcal{T}(3)\}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Xianglong Zhang , Lihua You

Let $G$ be a connected graph, and let $b$ and $k$ be two positive integers with $b\equiv1$ (mod 2). A $[1,b]$-odd factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $F$ of $G$ with $d_F(v)\equiv1$ (mod 2) and $1\leq d_F(v)\leq b$ for every $v\in V(G)$. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Sufang Wang , Wei Zhang

A graph $G$ has the $k$-strong parity property if for any $X\subseteq V(G)$ with $|X|$ even, $G$ contains a spanning subgraph $F$ with $d_F(u)\equiv1$ (mod 2) for each $u\in X$ and $d_F(v)\in\{k,k+2,k+4,\ldots\}$ for each $v\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Jie Wu

A fractional matching of $G$ is a function $f: E(G)\to [0,1]$ such that $\sum_{e\in E_G(v_i)}f(e)\le 1$ for any $v_i\in V(G)$, where $E_G(v_i)=\{e: e\in E(G) \ \textrm{and}\ e \ \textrm{is incident with} \ v_i\}$. Let $\alpha_f(G)$ denote…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Zengzhao Xu , Weige Xi , Ligong Wang

Let $a\leq b$ be two positive integers. We say that a graph $G$ has all $[a,b]$-factors if it has an $h$-factor for every function $h: V(G)\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}^+$ such that $a\le h(v) \le b$ for all $v\in V(G)$ and $\sum_{v\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Jiaxin Zheng , Junjie Wang , Xueyi Huang

Let $G$ be a graph and let $f$ be a positive integer-valued function on $V(G)$. Assume that for all $S\subseteq V(G)$, $$\sum_{v\in I(G\setminus S)}f(v)(f(v)+1)\le |S|,$$ where $I(G\setminus S)$ denotes the set of isolated vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Morteza Hasanvand

Let $G$ be a graph with minimum degree $\delta$. The spectral radius of $G$, denoted by $\rho(G)$, is the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$. In this note we mainly prove the following two results. (1) Let $G$ be a graph on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Bo Ning , Jun Ge