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Let $G$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A(G)$. We conjecture that \[2n^+(G) \le n^-(G)(n^-(G) + 1),\] where $n^+(G)$ and $n^-(G)$ denote the number of positive and negative eigenvalues of $A(G)$, respectively. This conjecture generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Saieed Akbari , Clive Elphick , Hitesh Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Quanyu Tang

Let $(n^+, n^0, n^-)$ denote the inertia of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. Nordhaus-Gaddum bounds are known for inertia, except for an upper bound for $n^-$. We conjecture that for any graph \[ n^-(G) + n^-(\bar{G}) \le 1.5(n - 1), \] and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Pawel Wocjan , Clive Elphick

Let $G_w$ be a weighted graph. The \textit{inertia} of $G_w$ is the triple $In(G_w)=\big(i_+(G_w),i_-(G_w), $ $ i_0(G_w)\big)$, where $i_+(G_w),i_-(G_w),i_0(G_w)$ are the number of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Guihai Yu , Xiao-Dong Zhang , Lihua Feng

The inertia of a graph $G$ is defined to be the triplet $In(G) = (p(G), n(G), $ $\eta(G))$, where $p(G)$, $n(G)$ and $\eta(G)$ are the numbers of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues (including multiplicities) of the adjacency matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Fang Duan , Qiongxiang Huang , Xueyi Huang

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph. We use $n(G)$, $p(G)$, and $\eta(G)$ to denote the number of negative eigenvalues, positive eigenvalues, and zero eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix $A(G)$ of $G$, respectively. In this paper, we prove…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Songnian Xu , Wenhao Zhen , Dein Wong

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

For a simple graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, let $A_G$ denote the adjacency matrix of $G$, and let $\lambda_1(G) \geq \lambda_2(G) \geq \dots \geq \lambda_n(G)$ be its eigenvalues. For an integer $p \geq 2$, the positive $p$-energy and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Zhengbo Chen , Zhouningxin Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

A mixed graph $\widetilde{G}$ is obtained by orienting some edges of $G$, where $G$ is the underlying graph of $\widetilde{G}$. The positive inertia index, denoted by $p^{+}(G)$, and the negative inertia index, denoted by $n^{-}(G)$, of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Shengjie He , Rong-Xia Hao , Aimei Yu

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$ with eigenvalues $\lambda_1(G)\geq \cdots \geq \lambda_n(G)$. Define \[s^+(G)=\sum_{\lambda_i >0} \lambda_i^2(G), \quad s^-(G)=\sum_{\lambda_i<0} \lambda_i^2(G).\] It was conjectured by Elphick,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Saieed Akbari , Hitesh Kumar , Bojan Mohar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Shengtong Zhang

Let G be an undirected graph on n vertices and let S(G) be the set of all real symmetric n x n matrices whose nonzero off-diagonal entries occur in exactly the positions corresponding to the edges of G. The inverse inertia problem for G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Wayne Barrett , H. Tracy Hall , Raphael Loewy

The energy of a graph $G$ is the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of $G$. Let $s^+(G), s^-(G)$ denote the sum of the squares of the positive and negative eigenvalues of $G$, respectively. It was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Aida Abiad , Leonardo de Lima , Dheer Noal Desai , Krystal Guo , Leslie Hogben , Jose Madrid

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

This paper consists of a few results, discovered and proved during the 2012-2013 research group at Eastern Oregon University. Inertia tables are a visual representation of the possible inertias of a given graph. The inertia of a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-10 E. B. Cohen , N. H. Nguyen , J. G. Winde , A. A Yielding

Let $G_w$ be a weighted graph. The number of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues in the spectrum of $G_w$ are called positive inertia index, negative inertia index and nullity of $G_w$, and denoted by $i_{+}(G_w)$, $i_{-}(G_w)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Shibing Deng , Shuchao Li , Feifei Song

For a graph $G$, its energy $\mathcal{E}(G)$ is the sum of absolute values of the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix, the matching number $\mu(G)$ is the number of edges in a maximum matching of $G$, while $\Delta$ is the maximum vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Đorđe Stevanović , Ivan Damnjanović , Dragan Stevanović

Suppose that $\Gamma=(G, \sigma)$ is a connected signed graph with at least one cycle. The number of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of $\Gamma$ are called positive inertia index, negative inertia index and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Beiyan Liu , Fang Duan

Let $\Gamma=(G, \sigma)$ be a signed graph of order $n$ with underlying graph $G$ and a sign function $\sigma: E(G)\rightarrow \{+, -\}$. Denoted by $i_+(\Gamma)$, $\theta(\Gamma)$ and $p(\Gamma)$ the positive inertia index, the cyclomatic…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jie Pu , Fang Duan

We prove that any \(2\)-connected graph \(G\) on \(n\) vertices with minimum degree \(\delta(G) \ge \frac{n}{4}+2\) contains a \(2\)-connected subgraph of order \(k\) for every integer \(k\) with \(4 \le k \le n\). This improves a previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Haiyang Liu , Bo Ning

Let $G$ be a graph and let $A(G)$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. The signature $s(G)$ of $G$ is the difference between the positive inertia index and the negative inertia index of $A(G)$. Ma et al. [Positive and negative inertia index of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Long Wang , Yi-Zheng Fan

The number of the positive, negative and zero eigenvalues in the spectrum of the (edge)-weighted graph $G$ are called positive inertia index, negative inertia index and nullity of the weighted graph $G$, and denoted by $i_+(G)$, $i_-(G)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Shuchao Li , Feifei Song
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