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In this paper extremal problems for uniform hypergraphs are studied in the general setting of hereditary properties. It turns out that extremal problems about edges are particular cases of a general analyic problem about a recently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Vladimir Nikiforov

We introduce a broad class of equations that are described by a graph, which includes many well-studied systems. For these, we show that the number of solutions (or the dimension of the solution set) can be bounded by studying certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Eddie Nijholt , Davide Sclosa

The extremal eigenvalues including maximum eigenvalues and the minimum eigenvalues about outerplanar graphs are investigated in this paper. Some structural characterizations about the (edge) maximal bipartite outerplanar graphs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Guanglong Yu

Given a simple graph $G$, its $A_\alpha$ matrix is a convex combination with parameter $\alpha\in [0,1]$ of its adjacency matrix and its degree diagonal matrices. Here we compare two lower bounds presented in [J. D. G. Silva Jr., C. S.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Giovanni Barbarino

We analyze various formulations of the $\infty$-Laplacian eigenvalue problem on graphs, comparing their properties and highlighting their respective advantages and limitations. First, we investigate the graph $\infty$-eigenpairs arising as…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Piero Deidda , Martin Burger , Mario Putti , Francesco Tudisco

The imbalance of an edge $e=\{u,v\}$ in a graph is defined as $i(e)=|d(u)-d(v)|$, where $d(\cdot)$ is the vertex degree. The irregularity $I(G)$ of $G$ is then defined as the sum of imbalances over all edges of $G$. This concept was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Felix Goldberg

Graph theory on surfaces extends classical graph structures to topological surfaces, providing a theoretical foundation for characterizing the embedding properties of complex networks in constrained spaces. The study of bounding the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

Spectral problems are considered generated by the Sturm-Liouville equation on connected simple equilateral graphs with the Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions at the pendant vertices and continuity and Kirchhoff's conditions at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Anastasia Chernyshenko , Vyacheslav Pivovarchik

We improve recent results relating graph eigenvalues to other graph parameters like girth, domination number, and minimum degree.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

For a graph $G$ of order $n$, the spectral sum of $G$ is defined to be the sum $\lambda_1(G) + \lambda_2(G)$, where $\lambda_1(G)$ (resp. $\lambda_2(G)$) is the largest (resp. second largest) adjacency eigenvalue of $G$. Ebrahimi, Mohar,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Hitesh Kumar , Lele Liu , Hermie Monterde , Shivaramakrishna Pragada , Michael Tait

We develop a nonlinear spectral graph theory, in which the Laplace operator is replaced by the 1-Laplacian ?$\Delta_1$. The eigenvalue problem is to solve a nonlinear system involving a set valued function. In the study, we investigate the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Kung Ching Chang

Let $G$ be a graph, $S$ be a set of vertices of $G$, and $\lambda(S)$ be the maximum number $\ell$ of pairwise edge-disjoint trees $T_1, T_2,..., T_{\ell}$ in $G$ such that $S\subseteq V(T_i)$ for every $1\leq i\leq \ell$. The generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao

We offer a new method for proving that the maximal eigenvalue of the normalized graph Laplacian of a graph with $n$ vertices is at least $\frac{n+1}{n-1}$ provided the graph is not complete and that equality is attained if and only if the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jürgen Jost , Raffaella Mulas , Florentin Münch

Let G be a graph with adjacency matrix A(G) and degree diagonal matrix D(G). In 2017, Nikiforov [1] defined the matrix Aalpha(G), as a convex combination of A(G) and D(G), the following way, Aalpha(G) = alpha A(G) + (1 - alpha)D(G), where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 João Domingos G. da Silva , Carla Silva Oliveira , Liliana Manuela G. C. da Costa

We prove that for every graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, the treewidth of $G$ plus the treewidth of the complement of $G$ is at least $n-2$. This bound is tight.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

We study Nordhaus-Gaddum problems for Kemeny's constant $\mathcal{K}(G)$ of a connected graph $G$. We prove bounds on $\min\{\mathcal{K}(G),\mathcal{K}(\overline{G})\}$ and the product $\mathcal{K}(G)\mathcal{K}(\overline{G})$ for various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Sooyeong Kim , Neal Madras , Ada Chan , Mark Kempton , Stephen Kirkland , Adam Knudson

We establish new bounds on the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues among real symmetric matrices with nonzero off-diagonal pattern described by the edges of a graph and apply these to determine the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Beth Bjorkman , Leslie Hogben , Scarlitte Ponce , Carolyn Reinhart , Theodore Tranel

The best degree-based upper bound for the spectral radius is due to Liu and Weng. This paper begins by demonstrating that a (forgotten) upper bound for the spectral radius dating from 1983 is equivalent to their much more recent bound. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Clive Elphick , Chia-an Liu

The investigation of eigenvalue conditions for the existence of an $[a,b]$-factor originates in the work of Brouwer and Haemers (2005) on perfect matchings. In the decades since, spectral extremal problems related to $[a,b]$-factors have…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Dandan Fan , Huiqiu Lin , Yinfen Zhu

We present the bounds in terms of other important graph parameters for general Sombor index which generalises both the forgotten index and the Sombor index. We also explore the Nordhaus-Gaddum-type result for the general Sombor index. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Chinglensana Phanjoubam , Sainkupar Mn Mawiong