Let be the set of connected graphs with order n and independence number α. The graph with the minimum spectral radius among is called the minimizer graph. Stevanović in the classical book [Spectral Radius of Graphs, Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2015] pointed out that determining the minimizer graph in appears to be a tough problem. Recently, Lou and Guo (2022) [14] proved that the minimizer graph in must be a tree if . In this paper, we further give the structural features for the minimizer graph in detail, and then provide a constructing theorem for it. Thus, theoretically we determine the minimizer graphs in along with their spectral radius for any given . As an application, we determine all the minimizer graphs in for along with their spectral radius.
A rainbow stacking of r-edge-colorings of the complete d-uniform hypergraph on n vertices is a way of superimposing so that no edges of the same color are superimposed on each other. The definition of rainbow stackings of graphs was proposed by Alon, Defant, and Kravitz, and they determined a sharp threshold for r (as a function of m and n) governing the existence and nonexistence of rainbow stackings of random r-edge-colorings of the complete graph . In this paper, we extend their result to d-uniform hypergraph, obtain a sharp threshold for r controlling the existence and nonexistence of rainbow stackings of random r-edge-colorings of the complete d-uniform hypergraph for .
In this paper, we consider the existence of group divisible designs (GDDs) with block size 4 and group sizes 4 and 10. We show that a 4-GDD of type exists when the necessary conditions are satisfied, except possibly for a finite number of cases with . We also give some new examples of 4-GDDs for which the number of points is 51, 54 or some value less than or equal to 50.
Extending the notion of maxcut, the study of the frustration index of signed graphs is one of the basic questions in the theory of signed graphs. Recently two of the authors initiated the study of critically frustrated signed graphs. That is a signed graph whose frustration index decreases with the removal of any edge. The main focus of this study is on critical signed graphs which are not edge-disjoint unions of critically frustrated signed graphs (namely indecomposable signed graphs) and which are not built from other critically frustrated signed graphs by subdivision. We conjecture that for any given k there are only finitely many critically k-frustrated signed graphs of this kind.
Providing support for this conjecture we show that there are only two of such critically 3-frustrated signed graphs where there is no pair of edge-disjoint negative cycles. Similarly, we show that there are exactly ten critically 3-frustrated signed planar graphs that are neither decomposable nor subdivisions of other critically frustrated signed graphs. We present a method for building indecomposable critically frustrated signed graphs based on two given such signed graphs. We also show that the condition of being indecomposable is necessary for our conjecture.
Let denote a finite, simple, connected, and undirected non-bipartite graph with vertex set X and edge set . Fix a vertex , and define , where ∂ denotes the path-length distance in Γ. Observe that the graph is bipartite. We say that Γ supports a uniform structure with respect to x whenever has a uniform structure with respect to x in the sense of Miklavič and Terwilliger [7].
Assume that Γ is a distance-regular graph with classical parameters and diameter . Recall that q is an integer such that . The purpose of this paper is to study when Γ supports a uniform structure with respect to x. We studied the case in [3], and so in this paper we assume . Let denote the Terwilliger algebra of Γ with respect to x. Under an additional assumption that every irreducible T-module with endpoint 1 is thin, we show that if Γ supports a uniform structure with respect to x, then either or , , and .
The orthogonal array holds significant importance as a research topic within the realms of combinatorial design theory and experimental design theory, with widespread applications in statistics, computer science, coding theory and cryptography. This paper presents three constructions for asymmetric orthogonal arrays including juxtaposition, generator matrices over Galois fields and mixed difference matrices. Subsequently, many new infinite families of asymmetric orthogonal arrays with strength are obtained. Furthermore, some new infinite families of large sets of orthogonal arrays with mixed levels are also obtained.