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Eigenvalue interlacing is a versatile technique for deriving results in algebraic combinatorics. In particular, it has been successfully used for proving a number of results about the relation between the (adjacency matrix or Laplacian)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-05 M. A. Fiol

We investigate connections between the symmetries (automorphisms) of a graph and its spectral properties. Whenever a graph has a symmetry, i.e. a nontrivial automorphism $\phi$, it is possible to use $\phi$ to decompose any matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Wayne Barrett , Amanda Francis , Ben Webb

For a graph $G$, we associate a family of real symmetric matrices, $\mathcal{S}(G)$, where for any $M \in \mathcal{S}(G)$, the location of the nonzero off-diagonal entries of $M$ are governed by the adjacency structure of $G$. The ordered…

Strong matrix properties, roughly speaking, refer to generic conditions on a matrix such that its spectral perturbation and pattern perturbation interact nicely to cover a neighborhood in the ambient space. With a rich history, these strong…

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The spectra of signed matrices have played a fundamental role in social sciences, graph theory, and control theory. In this work, we investigate the computational problems of identifying symmetric signings of matrices with natural spectral…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Charles Carlson , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Hsien-Chih Chang , Alexandra Kolla

We use two variational techniques to prove upper bounds for sums of the lowest several eigenvalues of matrices associated with finite, simple, combinatorial graphs. These include estimates for the adjacency matrix of a graph and for both…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Evans M. Harell , Joachim Stubbe

The ring of graph invariants is spanned by the basic graph invariants which calculate the number of subgraphs isomorphic to a given graph in other graphs. These subgraphs counting invariants are not algebraically independent. In our view…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-11 Tomi Mikkonen

A new family of strongly regular graphs, called the general symplectic graphs $Sp(2\nu, q)$, associated with nonsingular alternate matrices is introduced. Their parameters as strongly regular graphs, their chromatic numbers as well as their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongming Tang , Zhe-xian Wan

We address the "inverse problem" for discrete geometry, which consists in determining whether, given a discrete structure of a type that does not in general imply geometrical information or even a topology, one can associate with it a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Luca Bombelli , Alejandro Corichi , Oliver Winkler

Quantum graphs have attracted attention from mathematicians for some time. A quantum graph is defined by having a Laplacian on each edge of a metric graph and imposing boundary conditions at the vertices to get an eigenvalue problem. A…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mats-Erik Pistol , Pavel Kurasov

The inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph $G$ studies the possible spectra of matrices associated with $G$, including as an important subproblem the possible nullities of such a matrix. Much research in this area to date has focused only on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Aida Abiad , Mary Flagg , H. Tracy Hall , Jephian C. -H. Lin , Bryan Shader

If $A$ is a $2n \times 2n$ real positive definite matrix, then there exists a symplectic matrix $M$ such that $M^TAM = \left [ \begin{array}{cc} D & O \\ O & D \end{array} \right ]$ where $D= \diag (d_1 (A), \ldots, d_n(A))$ is a diagonal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Rajendra Bhatia , Tanvi Jain

We study the following inverse graph-theoretic problem: how many vertices should a graph have given that it has a specified value of some parameter. We obtain asymptotic for the minimal number of vertices of the graph with the given number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Alex Dainiak

We consider the inverse problem of finding matrix valued edge or nodal quantities in a graph from measurements made at a few boundary nodes. This is a generalization of the problem of finding resistors in a resistor network from voltage and…

Spectral graph theory is a captivating area of graph theory that employs the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices associated with graphs to study them. In this paper, we present a collection of $20$ topics in spectral graph theory,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Lele Liu , Bo Ning

For a given complex square matrix $A$ with constant row sum, we establish two new eigenvalue inclusion sets. Using these bounds, first we derive bounds for the second largest and smallest eigenvalues of adjacency matrices of $k$-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Ranjit Mehatari , M. Rajesh Kannan

A discrete Schr\"odinger operator of a graph $G$ is a real symmetric matrix whose $i,j$-entry, $i \neq j$, is negative if $\{i,j\}$ is an edge and zero if it is not an edge, while diagonal entries can be any real numbers. The discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Anzila Laikhuram , Jephian C. -H. Lin

We consider the inverse eigenvalue problem of constructing a substochastic matrix from the given spectrum parameters with the corresponding eigenvector constraints. This substochastic inverse eigenvalue problem (SstIEP) with the specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Yujie Liu , Dacheng Yao , Hanqin Zhang

We study the inverse eigenvector centrality problem on connected undirected graphs, namely, whether a given positive vector can be realized by assigning suitable edge weights. We provide a complete characterization in terms of stable sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mauro Passacantando , Fabio Raciti

Directed graphs have long been used to gain understanding of the structure of semigroups, and recently the structure of directed graph semigroups has been investigated resulting in a characterization theorem and an analog of Fruct's…

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