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Let G be a simple graph with the adjacency matrix $ A(G) $ A (G). Let $ \tau (G) $ τ (G) denote the smallest positive eigenvalue of $ A(G) $ A (G). In 1990, Pavlíková and Kr $ \breve{c} $ c ˘ -Jediný proved that among all nonsingular trees on n = 2m vertices, the comb graph (obtained by taking a path on m vertices and adding a new pendant vertex to every vertex of the path) has the maximum τ value. We consider the problem for unicyclic graphs. Let $ \mathscr {U} $ U denote the class of all connected bipartite unicyclic graphs with a unique perfect matching, and for each $ m\geq ~3 $ m ≥ 3 , let $ \mathscr {U}_n $ U n be the subclass of $ \mathscr {U} $ U with graphs on n = 2m vertices. We first obtain the classes of unicyclic graphs U in $ \mathscr {U} $ U such that $ \tau (U)\leq \sqrt {2}-1 $ τ (U) ≤ 2 − 1. We then find the unique graph $ U_o^n $ U o n (resp. $ U_e^n $ U e n ) having the maximum τ value among all graphs in $ \mathscr {U}_n $ U n when m is odd (resp. when m is even). Finally, we prove that $ U_o^6 $ U o 6 (the graph obtained from a cycle of order 4, by adding two pendants to two adjacent vertices) is the graph with maximum τ value among all graphs in $ \mathscr {U} $ U . As a consequence, we obtain a sharp upper bound for $ \tau (U) $ τ (U) when $ U\in \mathscr {U} $ U ∈ U . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let G be a graph, and let $ A(G) $ A (G) be the adjacency matrix of G. The computation of permanent of $ A(G) $ A (G) is #p-complete. Computing permanent of $ A(G) $ A (G) is of great interest in quantum chemistry, statistical physics, among other disciplines. In this paper, we characterize the ordering of permanents of adjacency matrices of all graphs obtained from regular complete bipartite graph $ K_{p, p} $ K p , p by deleting six edges. As an application, we show that all graphs with a perfect matching obtained from $ K_{p, p} $ K p , p with six edges deleted are determined by their permanental polynomials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a simple graph G, the ABC-index is a degree based topological index and is defined as where dv is the degree of the vertex υ in G. Recently, the Laplacian ABC-matrix was introduced in [22] is defined by where is the diagonal matrix of ABC-degrees and Ã(G) is the ABC-matrix of G: The eigenvalues of the matrix are called the Laplacian ABC-eigenvalues of G. In the article, we consider the problem of characterization of connected graphs having exactly three distinct Laplacian ABC-eigenvalues. We solve this problem for bipartite graphs, multipartite graphs, unicyclic graphs, regular graphs and prove the non-existence of such graphs with diameter greater than 2. We introduce the concept of trace norm of the matrix called the Laplacian ABC-energy of G. We obtain some upper and lower bounds for the Laplacian ABC-energy and characterize the extremal graphs which attain these bounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The class of unicyclic non-bipartite graphs with unique perfect matching, denoted by U , is considered in this article. This article provides a complete characterization of unicyclic graphs in U which possess tricyclic inverses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energy of a graph is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all eigenvalues with respect to its adjacency matrix. Denote by Gn,m the set of all connected graphs having n vertices and m edges. Caporossi et al. [Caporossi G, Cvetkovi D, Gutman I, et al. Variable neighbourhood search for extremal graphs. 2. Finding graphs with external energy. J Chem Inf Comput Sci. 1999;39:984–996] conjectured that among all graphs in Gn,m, n ≥ 6 and n − 1 ≤ m ≤ 2(n − 2), the graphs with minimum energy are the star Sn with m−n + 1 additional edges all connected to the same vertices for m ≤ n + ⌊ (n − 7) / 2 ⌋ , and the bipartite graph with two vertices on one side, one of which is connected to all vertices on the other side, otherwise. In this paper, we provide a new approach to investigate the conjecture above. Especially, we determine the unique tetracyclic graph having minimum energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An oriented graph is called singular or nonsingular according as its adjacency matrix is singular or nonsingular. In this note, by a new approach, we determine the singularity of oriented quasi-trees. The main results of Chen et al. ['Singularity of oriented graphs from several classes', Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 102 (1) (2020), 7–14] follow as corollaries. Furthermore, we give a necessary condition for an oriented bipartite graph to be nonsingular. By applying this condition, we characterise nonsingular oriented bipartite graphs $B_{m,n}$ when $\min \{m,n\}\leq 3$. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In [A note about cospectral graphs for the adjacency and normalized Laplacian matrices. Linear Multilinear Algebra. 2010;58(3-4):387–390], Butler constructed a family of bipartite graphs, which are cospectral for both the adjacency and the normalized Laplacian matrices. In this article, we extend this construction for generating larger classes of bipartite graphs, which are cospectral for both the adjacency and the normalized Laplacian matrices. Also, we provide a couple of constructions of non-bipartite graphs, which are cospectral for the adjacency matrices but not necessarily for the normalized Laplacian matrices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]