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We investigate some graph parameters dealing with biindependent pairs $(A,B)$ in a bipartite graph $G=(V_1\cup V_2,E)$, i.e., pairs $(A,B)$ where $A\subseteq V_1$, $B\subseteq V_2$ and $A\cup B$ is independent. These parameters also allow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Monique Laurent , Sven Polak , Luis Felipe Vargas

For a simple graph $G$ with adjacency matrix $A(G)$, let $\pi(G,x):=\mathrm{per}(xI-A(G))$ be its permanental polynomial with roots $\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_n \in \mathbb{C}$, and define the permanental energy $E_{\mathrm{per}}(G):=\sum_{i=1}^n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Priyanshu Pant , Ranveer Singh

Answering some questions of Gutman, we show that, except for four specific trees, every connected graph G of order n, with no cycle of order 4 and with maximum degree at most 3, has energy greater that its order. Here, the energy of a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Vladimir Nikiforov

We investigate two conjectured spectral graph theoretic strengthenings of Tur\'an's theorem. Let $\mu_1 \ge \ldots \ge \mu_n$ denote the eigenvalues of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and clique number $\omega(G)$. The concise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Clive Elphick , William Linz , Pawel Wocjan

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

An edge Roman dominating function of a graph $G$ is a function $f\colon E(G) \rightarrow \{0,1,2\}$ satisfying the condition that every edge $e$ with $f(e)=0$ is adjacent to some edge $e'$ with $f(e')=2$. The edge Roman domination number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Gerard J. Chang , Sheng-Hua Chen , Chun-Hung Liu

We construct a family of countexamples to a conjecture of Galvin [5], which stated that for any $n$-vertex, $d$-regular graph $G$ and any graph $H$ (possibly with loops), \[\hom(G,H) \leq \max\left\lbrace\hom(K_{d,d}, H)^{\frac{n}{2d}},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Luke Sernau

Given a graphical degree sequence ${\bf d}=(d_1,\ldots, d_n)$, let $G(n, {\bf d})$ denote a uniformly random graph on vertex set $[n]$ where vertex $ i$ has degree $d_i$ for every $1\le i\le n$. We give upper and lower bounds on the joint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Pu Gao , Yuval Ohapkin

In 2004, Karo\'nski, \L uczak and Thomason proposed $1$-$2$-$3$-conjecture: For every nice graph $G$ there is an edge weighting function $ w:E(G)\rightarrow\{1,2,3\} $ such that the induced vertex coloring is proper. After that, the total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Akbar Davoodi , Leila Maherani

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a dominating set of G if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S . The domination number of G, denoted by $\gamma$(G), is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set in G. In a breakthrough…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Paul Dorbec , Michael Antony Henning

The implicit representation conjecture concerns hereditary families of graphs. Given a graph in such a family, we want to assign some string of bits to each vertex in such a way that we can recover the information about whether 2 vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Matthew Fitch

In 2002, Nikiforov proved that for an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with clique number $\omega$ and edge number $m$, the spectral radius $\lambda(G)$ satisfies $\lambda (G) \leq \sqrt{2(1 - 1/\omega) m}$, which confirmed a conjecture implicitly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Lele Liu , Bo Ning

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices, independence number $\alpha(G)$, Lov\'asz theta function $\vartheta(G)$, and Shannon capacity $\Theta(G)$. We define $n_{\ge0}(G)$ to be the minimum number of non-negative eigenvalues taken over all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Quanyu Tang , Shengtong Zhang , Clive Elphick

A complex unit gain graph ($ \mathbb{T} $-gain graph), $ \Phi=(G, \varphi) $ is a graph where the gain function $ \varphi $ assigns a unit complex number to each orientation of an edge of $ G $ and its inverse is assigned to the opposite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Aniruddha Samanta , M. Rajesh Kannan

We confirm the eventual evasiveness of several classes of monotone graph properties under widely accepted number theoretic hypotheses. In particular we show that Chowla's conjecture on Dirichlet primes implies that (a) for any graph $H$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Laszlo Babai , Anandam Banerjee , Raghav Kulkarni , Vipul Naik

The energy of a graph is the sum of the absolute values of its adjacency eigenvalues. For integral circulant graphs $\ICG(n,\mathcal{D})$ of order $n=p^2q^3$, where $p$ and $q$ are distinct odd primes, we prove that the adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Diego Roldan

This paper proves a conjecture generated by the artificial intelligence conjecturing program called \emph{TxGraffiti}. More specifically, we show that if $G$ is a connected, cubic, and claw-free graph, then $Z(G) \le \gamma(G) + 2$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Randy R. Davila

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 $\hom(H,G)$ denote the number of homomorphisms from a graph $H$ to a graph $G$. Sidorenko's conjecture asserts that for any bipartite graph $H$, and a graph $G$ we have $$\hom(H,G)\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Péter Csikvári , Zhicong Lin

A \emph{dynamic colouring} of a graph is a proper colouring in which no neighbourhood of a non-leaf vertex is monochromatic. The \emph{dynamic colouring number} $\chi_2(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least number of colours needed for a dynamic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Nathan Bowler , Joshua Erde , Florian Lehner , Martin Merker , Max Pitz , Konstantinos Stavropoulos