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We obtain a second order differential equation on moduli space satisfied by certain modular graph functions at genus two, each of which has two links. This eigenvalue equation is obtained by analyzing the variations of these graphs under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Anirban Basu

Second order nonlinear eigenvalue problems are considered for which the spectrum is an interval. The boundary conditions are of Robin and Dirichlet type. The shape and the number of solutions are discussed by means of a phase plane…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Catherine Bandle , Simon Stingelin , Alfred Wagner

Let $spex(n,H_{minor})$ denote the maximum spectral radius of $n$-vertex $H$-minor free graphs. The problem on determining this extremal value can be dated back to the early 1990s. Up to now, it has been solved for $n$ sufficiently large…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

We study the Nordhaus-Gaddum type results for $(k-1,k,j)$ and $k$-domination numbers of a graph $G$ and investigate these bounds for the $k$-limited packing and $k$-total limited packing numbers in graphs. As the special case…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-18 D. A. Mojdeh , Babak Samadi , Lutz Volkmann

Brualdi and Hoffman (1985) proposed the problem of determining the maximal spectral radius of graphs with given size. In this paper, we consider the Brualdi-Hoffman type problem of graphs with given matching number. The maximal $Q$-spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Mingqing Zhai , Jie Xue , Ruifang Liu

In this paper, we investigate the packing parameters in graphs. By applying the Mantel's theorem, We give upper bounds on packing and open packing numbers of triangle-free graphs along with characterizing the graphs for which the equalities…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-27 D. A. Mojdeh , Babak Samadi

A well known upper bound for the spectral radius of a graph, due to Hong, is that $\mu_1^2 \le 2m - n + 1$. It is conjectured that for connected graphs $n - 1 \le s^+ \le 2m - n + 1$, where $s^+$ denotes the sum of the squares of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Clive Elphick , Felix Goldberg , Miriam Farber , Pawel Wocjan

In 1979, Neumaier gave a bound on $\lambda$ in terms of $m$ and $\mu$, where $-m$ is the smallest eigenvalue of a primitive strongly regular graph, unless the graph in question belongs to one of the two infinite families of strongly regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Jack Koolen , Chenhui Lv , Greg Markowsky , Jongyook Park

The $\delta$-complement $G_\delta$ of a graph $G$, introduced in 2022 by Pai et al., is a variant of the graph complement, where two vertices are adjacent in $G_\delta$ if and only if they are of the same degree but not adjacent in $G$ or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Supakorn Srisawat , Panupong Vichitkunakorn

We give upper and lower bounds on the spectral radius of a graph in terms of the number of walks. We generalize a number of known results.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

The fractional matching number of a graph G, is the maximum size of a fractional matching of G. The following sharp lower bounds for a graph G of order n are proved, and all extremal graphs are characterized in this paper. (1)The sum of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Ting Yang , Xiying Yuan

We give upper and lower bounds for the spectral radius of a nonnegative matrix by using its average 2-row sums, and characterize the equality cases if the matrix is irreducible. We also apply these bounds to various nonnegative matrices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-30 Rundan Xing , Bo Zhou

Nordhaus and Gaddum proved in 1956 that the sum of the chromatic number $\chi$ of a graph $G$ and its complement is at most $|G|+1$. The Nordhaus-Gaddum graphs are the class of graphs satisfying this inequality with equality, and are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Vaidy Sivaraman , Rebecca Whitman

A traditional Nordhaus-Gaddum problem for a graph parameter $\beta$ is to find a (tight) upper or lower bound on the sum or product of $\beta(G)$ and $\beta(\bar{G})$ (where $\bar{G}$ denotes the complement of $G$). An $r$-decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Leslie Hogben , Jephian C. -H. Lin , Michael Young

Nordhaus and Gaddum proved sharp upper and lower bounds on the sum and product of the chromatic number of a graph and its complement. Over the years, similar inequalities have been shown for a plenitude of different graph invariants. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Deepak Bal , Jonathan Cutler , Luke Pebody

We give an upper bound on the maximal eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a connected graph in terms of its maximum degree, diameter and order. This bound is best possible up to a constant factor and improves prevoius results of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

We show various upper bounds for the order of a digraph (or a mixed graph) whose Hermitian adjacency matrix has an eigenspace of prescribed codimension. In particular, this generalizes the so-called absolute bound for (simple) graphs first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Alexander L. Gavrilyuk , Sho Suda

This note answers extremal questions like: what is the maximum number of edges in a graph of order n, which belongs to some hereditary property. The same question is answered also for the spectral radius and other similar parameters.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Vladimir Nikiforov

We propose a Nordhaus-Gaddum conjecture for $q(G)$, the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix corresponding to a graph $G$: for every graph $G$ excluding four exceptions, we conjecture that $q(G)+q(G^c)\le |G|+2$,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Rupert H. Levene , Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

We give some new bounds for the clique and independence numbers of a graph in terms of its eigenvalues.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Vladimir Nikiforov