scholarly journals Hyperoctahedral Eulerian Idempotents, Hodge Decompositions, and Signed Graph Coloring Complexes

10.37236/3636 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Braun ◽  
Sarah Crown Rundell
Keyword(s):  
Graph Coloring ◽  
Chromatic Polynomial ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Type B ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Chromatic Polynomials ◽  
Type Decomposition ◽  
Coloring Complex

Phil Hanlon proved that the coefficients of the chromatic polynomial of a graph $G$ are equal (up to sign) to the dimensions of the summands in a Hodge-type decomposition of the top homology of the coloring complex for $G$.  We prove a type B analogue of this result for chromatic polynomials of signed graphs using hyperoctahedral Eulerian idempotents.

scholarly journals Homomorphisms of Sparse Signed Graphs

10.37236/8478 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clément Charpentier ◽  
Reza Naserasr ◽  
Éric Sopena
Keyword(s):  
Graph Coloring ◽  
Duality Theorem ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Colored Graph ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Maximum Average Degree ◽  
Negative Edge ◽  
Negative Cycle ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Closed Walk

The notion of homomorphism of signed graphs, introduced quite recently, provides better interplay with the notion of minor and is thus of high importance in graph coloring. A newer, but equivalent, definition of homomorphisms of signed graphs, proposed jointly by the second and third authors of this paper and Thomas Zaslavsky, leads to a basic no-homomorphism lemma. According to this definition, a signed graph $(G, \sigma)$ admits a homomorphism to a signed graph $(H, \pi)$ if there is a mapping $\phi$ from the vertices and edges of $G$ to the vertices and edges of $H$ (respectively) which preserves adjacencies, incidences, and signs of closed walks (i.e., the product of the sign of their edges).  For $ij=00, 01, 10, 11$, let $g_{ij}(G,\sigma)$ be the length of a shortest nontrivial closed walk of $(G, \sigma)$ which is, positive and of even length for $ij=00$, positive and of odd length for $ij=01$, negative and of even length for $ij=10$, negative and of odd length for $ij=11$. For each $ij$, if there is no nontrivial closed walk of the corresponding type, we let $g_{ij}(G, \sigma)=\infty$. If $G$ is bipartite, then $g_{01}(G,\sigma)=g_{11}(G,\sigma)=\infty$. In this case, $g_{10}(G,\sigma)$ is certainly realized by a cycle of $G$, and it will be referred to as the \emph{unbalanced-girth} of $(G,\sigma)$. It then follows that if $(G,\sigma)$ admits a homomorphism to $(H, \pi)$, then $g_{ij}(G, \sigma)\geq g_{ij}(H, \pi)$ for $ij \in \{00, 01,10,11\}$. Studying the restriction of homomorphisms of signed graphs on sparse families, in this paper we first prove that for any given signed graph $(H, \pi)$, there exists a positive value of $\epsilon$ such that, if $G$ is a connected graph of maximum average degree less than $2+\epsilon$, and if $\sigma$ is a signature of $G$ such that $g_{ij}(G, \sigma)\geq g_{ij}(H, \pi)$ for all $ij \in \{00, 01,10,11\}$, then $(G, \sigma)$ admits a homomorphism to $(H, \pi)$. For $(H, \pi)$ being the signed graph on $K_4$ with exactly one negative edge, we show that $\epsilon=\frac{4}{7}$ works and that this is the best possible value of $\epsilon$. For $(H, \pi)$ being the negative cycle of length $2g$, denoted $UC_{2g}$, we show that $\epsilon=\frac{1}{2g-1}$ works.  As a bipartite analogue of the Jaeger-Zhang conjecture, Naserasr, Sopena and Rollovà conjectured in [Homomorphisms of signed graphs, {\em J. Graph Theory} 79 (2015)] that every signed bipartite planar graph $(G,\sigma)$ satisfying $g_{ij}(G,\sigma)\geq 4g-2$ admits a homomorphism to $UC_{2g}$. We show that $4g-2$ cannot be strengthened, and, supporting the conjecture, we prove it for planar signed bipartite graphs $(G,\sigma)$ satisfying the weaker condition $g_{ij}(G,\sigma)\geq 8g-2$. In the course of our work, we also provide a duality theorem to decide whether a 2-edge-colored graph admits a homomorphism to a certain class of 2-edge-colored signed graphs or not.

scholarly journals Concepts of signed graph coloring

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 103226
Author(s):  
Eckhard Steffen ◽  
Alexander Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Graph Coloring ◽  
Signed Graph

scholarly journals Characterizing attitudinal network graphs through frustration cloud

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Rusnak ◽  
Jelena Tešić
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Spectral Clustering ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Global Measure ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Community Discovery ◽  
Scalable Algorithm ◽  
Signed Network ◽  
Zero Sum

AbstractAttitudinal network graphs are signed graphs where edges capture an expressed opinion; two vertices connected by an edge can be agreeable (positive) or antagonistic (negative). A signed graph is called balanced if each of its cycles includes an even number of negative edges. Balance is often characterized by the frustration index or by finding a single convergent balanced state of network consensus. In this paper, we propose to expand the measures of consensus from a single balanced state associated with the frustration index to the set of nearest balanced states. We introduce the frustration cloud as a set of all nearest balanced states and use a graph-balancing algorithm to find all nearest balanced states in a deterministic way. Computational concerns are addressed by measuring consensus probabilistically, and we introduce new vertex and edge metrics to quantify status, agreement, and influence. We also introduce a new global measure of controversy for a given signed graph and show that vertex status is a zero-sum game in the signed network. We propose an efficient scalable algorithm for calculating frustration cloud-based measures in social network and survey data of up to 80,000 vertices and half-a-million edges. We also demonstrate the power of the proposed approach to provide discriminant features for community discovery when compared to spectral clustering and to automatically identify dominant vertices and anomalous decisions in the network.

scholarly journals On Laplacian Equienergetic Signed Graphs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Qingyun Tao ◽  
Lixin Tao
Keyword(s):  
Average Degree ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Laplacian Eigenvalues ◽  
Laplacian Energy

The Laplacian energy of a signed graph is defined as the sum of the distance of its Laplacian eigenvalues from its average degree. Two signed graphs of the same order are said to be Laplacian equienergetic if their Laplacian energies are equal. In this paper, we present several infinite families of Laplacian equienergetic signed graphs.

Independent domination in signed graphs

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150065
Author(s):  
P. Jeyalakshmi ◽  
K. Karuppasamy ◽  
S. Arockiaraj
Keyword(s):  
Dominating Set ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Independent Domination ◽  
Independent Dominating Set

Let [Formula: see text] be a signed graph. A dominating set [Formula: see text] is said to be an independent dominating set of [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] is a fully negative. In this paper, we initiate a study of this parameter. We also establish the bounds and characterization on the independent domination number of a signed graph.

Domination in signed graphs

2020 ◽  
pp. 2050094
Author(s):  
P. Jeyalakshmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Dominating Set ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Minimum Cardinality ◽  
Underlying Graph

Let [Formula: see text] be a graph. A signed graph is an ordered pair [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a graph called the underlying graph of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a function called a signature or signing function. Motivated by the innovative paper of B. D. Acharya on domination in signed graphs, we consider another way of defining the concept of domination in signed graphs which looks more natural and has applications in social science. A subset [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is called a dominating set of [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text]. The domination number of [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of [Formula: see text]. Also, a dominating set [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] is called a [Formula: see text]-set of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we initiate a study on this parameter.

scholarly journals Unlabeled signed graph coloring

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1122
Author(s):  
Brian Davis
Keyword(s):  
Graph Coloring ◽  
Signed Graph

Critical concepts of restrained domination in signed graphs

2021 ◽  
pp. 2250010
Author(s):  
Anisha Jean Mathias ◽  
V. Sangeetha ◽  
Mukti Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Undirected Graph ◽  
Dominating Set ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Minimum Cardinality ◽  
Underlying Graph ◽  
Restrained Domination ◽  
Edge Removal ◽  
Restrained Domination Number

A signed graph [Formula: see text] is a simple undirected graph in which each edge is either positive or negative. Restrained dominating set [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] is a restrained dominating set of the underlying graph [Formula: see text] where the subgraph induced by the edges across [Formula: see text] and within [Formula: see text] is balanced. The minimum cardinality of a restrained dominating set of [Formula: see text] is called the restrained domination number, denoted by [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we initiate the study on various critical concepts to investigate the effect of edge removal or edge addition on restrained domination number in signed graphs.

scholarly journals Density of Chromatic Roots in Minor-Closed Graph Families

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 988-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS J. PERRETT ◽  
CARSTEN THOMASSEN
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Classical Result ◽  
Golden Ratio ◽  
Chromatic Polynomial ◽  
Closed Graph ◽  
Small Interval ◽  
Chromatic Polynomials ◽  
Graph Families ◽  
Chromatic Roots

We prove that the roots of the chromatic polynomials of planar graphs are dense in the interval between 32/27 and 4, except possibly in a small interval around τ + 2 where τ is the golden ratio. This interval arises due to a classical result of Tutte, which states that the chromatic polynomial of every planar graph takes a positive value at τ + 2. Our results lead us to conjecture that τ + 2 is the only such number less than 4.

On The Unitary Cayley Ring Signed Graphs$S_n^\oplus$

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350020 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEEPA SINHA ◽  
AYUSHI DHAMA
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Cayley Graph ◽  
Signed Graph ◽  
Signed Graphs ◽  
Vertex Set ◽  
Unitary Cayley Graph

A Signed graph (or sigraph in short) is an ordered pair S = (G, σ), where G is a graph G = (V, E) and σ : E → {+, −} is a function from the edge set E of G into the set {+, −}. For a positive integer n > 1, the unitary Cayley graph Xnis the graph whose vertex set is Zn, the integers modulo n and if Undenotes set of all units of the ring Zn, then two vertices a, b are adjacent if and only if a − b ∈ Un. In this paper, we have obtained a characterization of balanced and clusterable unitary Cayley ring sigraph [Formula: see text]. Further, we have established a characterization of canonically consistent unitary Cayley ring sigraph [Formula: see text], where n has at most two distinct odd primes factors. Also sign-compatibility has been worked out for the same.

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