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Quasi-strongly regular graphs form a significant generalization of strongly regular graphs. We study the eigenvalues of a family of such graphs, $\Gamma_H(G)$, constructed from a finite group $G$ and a subgroup $H$. Our main results include…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Sauvik Poddar , Sucharita Biswas , Angsuman Das

Very recently, the first geometric-arithmetic index $GA$ and arithmetic-geometric index $AG$ were introduced in mathematical chemistry. In the present paper, we first obtain some lower and upper bounds on $AG$ and characterize the extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Shu-Yu Cui , Weifan Wang , Gui-Xian Tian , Baoyindureng Wu

The point-thickness $\theta'(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of subsets into which the vertex set $V(G)$ of $G$ is partitioned such that each subset induces a planar subgraph. In this paper, we determine the point-thickness of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Wenzhong Liu , Wangkai Zhang

Let $G$ be a graph and let $A(G)$ be adjacency matrix of $G$.The positive inertia index (respectively, the negative inertia index) of $G$, denoted by $p(G)$ (respectively, $n(G)$), is defined to be the number of positive eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Yi-Zheng Fan , Long Wang

We investigate the group irregularity strength ($s_g(G)$) of graphs, i.e. the smallest value of $s$ such that taking any Abelian group $\gr$ of order $s$, there exists a function $f:E(G)\rightarrow \gr$ such that the sums of edge labels at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Marcin Anholcer , Sylwia Cichacz , Martin Milanic

Two graphs are said to be $Q$-cospectral if they share the same signless Laplacian spectrum. A simple graph is said to be determined by its signless Laplacian spectrum (abbreviated as DQS) if there exists no other non-isomorphic simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jiachang Ye , Jianguo Qian , Zoran Stanic

The $r$-th iterated line graph $L^{r}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined by: (i) $L^{0}(G) = G$ and (ii) $L^{r}(G) = L(L^{(r- 1)}(G))$ for $r > 0$, where $L(G)$ denotes the line graph of $G$. The Hamiltonian Index $h(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Geevarghese Philip , Rani M. R. , Subashini R

In this paper, we initiate a systematic study of graph resilience. The (local) resilience of a graph G with respect to a property P measures how much one has to change G (locally) in order to destroy P. Estimating the resilience leads to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-01 Benny Sudakov , Van Vu

A new metric parameter for a graph, Helly-gap, is introduced. A graph $G$ is called $\alpha$-weakly-Helly if any system of pairwise intersecting disks in $G$ has a nonempty common intersection when the radius of each disk is increased by an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Feodor F. Dragan , Heather M. Guarnera

Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$ and let $D(G)$ be the diagonal matrix of the degrees of $G$. For every real $\alpha\in\left[ 0,1\right] $, write $A_{\alpha}\left( G\right) $ for the matrix \[ A_{\alpha}\left( G\right)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Vladimir Nikiforov , Oscar Rojo

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices, and let $A(G)$ and $D(G)$ denote respectively the adjacency matrix and the degree matrix of $G$. Define $$ A_{\alpha}(G)=\alpha D(G)+(1-\alpha)A(G) $$ for any real $\alpha\in [0,1]$. The collection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Huiqiu Lin , Xiaogang Liu , Jie Xue

Let $G$ be a simple graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$, signless Laplacian matrix $Q(G)$, degree diagonal matrix $D(G)$ and let $l(G)$ be the line graph of $G$. In 2017, Nikiforov defined the $A_\alpha$-matrix of $G$, $A_\alpha(G)$, as a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Joao Domingos Gomes da Silva Junior , Carla Silva Oliveira , Liliana Manuela Gaspar C. da Costa

A mixed graph $G$ is a graph obtained from a simple undirected graph by orientating a subset of edges. $G$ is self-converse if it is isomorphic to the graph obtained from $G$ by reversing each directed edge. For two mixed graphs $G$ and $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Wei Wang , Lihong Qiu , Jianguo Qian , Wei Wang

We investigate how to find generic and globally rigid realizations of graphs in $\mathbb{R}^d$ based on elementary geometric observations. Our arguments lead to new proofs of a combinatorial characterization of the global rigidity of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Shin-ichi Tanigawa

This paper studies questions about duality between crossings and non-crossings in graph drawings via the notions of thickness and antithickness. The "thickness" of a graph $G$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that in some drawing of $G$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Vida Dujmović , David R. Wood

The general Sombor index of $G$ is defined as $SO_{\alpha}(G)= \sum_{uv\in G}\left(d^2_{G}(u)+d^2_{G}(v)\right)^{\alpha}$. For $0<\alpha<1$, we have the upper bound of $SO_{\alpha}(G)$ on unicyclic graphs with a fixed diameter, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Xipeng Hu , Lingping Zhong

A fundamental and challenging problem in spectral graph theory is to characterize which graphs are uniquely determined by their spectra. In Wang [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, 122 (2017): 438-451], the author proved that an $n$-vertex graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Wei Wang , Wei Wang , Fuhai Zhu

Let $t>0$ be a real number and $G$ be a graph. We say $G$ is $t$-tough if for every cutset $S$ of $G$, the ratio of $|S|$ to the number of components of $G-S$ is at least $t$. The Toughness Conjecture of Chv\'atal, stating that there exists…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Lingjuan Shi , Songling Shan

Slimness of a graph measures the local deviation of its metric from a tree metric. In a graph $G=(V,E)$, a geodesic triangle $\bigtriangleup(x,y,z)$ with $x, y, z\in V$ is the union $P(x,y) \cup P(x,z) \cup P(y,z)$ of three shortest paths…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Feodor F. Dragan , Abdulhakeem Mohammed

The {\it Randi\'c index} $R(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as the sum of 1/\sqrt{d_ud_v} over all edges $uv$ of $G$, where $d_u$ and $d_v$ are the degrees of vertices $u$ and $v,$ respectively. Let $D(G)$ be the diameter of $G$ when $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Yiting Yang , Linyuan Lu