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Interpreting positive semidefinite matrix as a graph

Given any symmetric matrix $S \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, if $S \succeq 0$, is there a way to encode $S$ into a graph such that it takes into account the positive semidefinite constraint, and ...
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Is the sum of the circulant matrix with a super upper triangular matrix diagonalizable?

By the circulant matrix $C$ in $M_n(\mathbb{R})$, we mean that $$C=[e_n|e_1|\cdots|e_{n-1}]$$ where $e_1,\cdots,e_n$ are the standard basis vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$. It is well-known that $$C=\...
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Non-diagonalizability of the adjacency matrix of a directed graph

Let $G$ be a directed graph with no multiple edges or loops and let $P_i$ be its vertices. Let $A$ be the corresponding adjacency matrix of $G$, i.e. $a_{i,j}=1$ if and only if there is a directed ...
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The middle eigenvalues of an undirected graph

Let $ \lambda_1 \ge \lambda_2 \ge \dots \ge \lambda_{2n} $ be the collection of eigenvalues of an adjacency matrix of an undirected graph $G$ on $2n$ vertices. I am looking for any work or references ...
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Is it possible to compute a valid Laplacian matrix from an effective resistance matrix?

I am wondering whether it is possible to retrieve a node-admittance matrix $G$ (also called Laplacian matrix) in a purely resistive network composed of nets $\{1, \dots, i, \dots, j, \dots, n\}$, from ...
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A property of directed acyclic graph

Suppose $A \in \mathbb{R}^p$ is the adjacency matrix of a weighted directed acyclic graph $D$ with vertex set $\left\{v_{1}, v_{2}, \ldots, v_{p}\right\}$, i.e. $$ a_{i j}=\left\{\begin{array}{lr} ...
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How to delete the maximum number of rows of a Boolean matrix by maintaining the sum greater than zero in each column

I have a Boolean matrix (entries are "0" or "1"), which is not square. The sum over each row and each column is constant (but they can be two different values). I would like to ...
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Polynomial time algorithm for rigid graph isomorphism

We found, implemented and tested algorithm for graph isomorphism and it appears to be polynomial time if the graph is rigid. Q1 Is the algorithm below correct and polynomial time for rigid graphs? A ...
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Adjacency matrix/tensor operations for graph sequences?

Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$. Its adjacency matrix $A$ is defined by $A_{u,v} = 1$ if $(u,v)\in E$, $0$ otherwise. Consider a vector $x$ that associates a value $x_v$ to each vertex of $G$. Consider the ...
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Linear independence of vectors in Graph Theory

I have poste this question on StackExchange but there were no takers - would I be luckier on this site? Most of this is well known, so let me just restate the corresponding Math: Given a connected, ...
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A Dynkin type classification result in linear algebra

Let $G$ be a finite directed acyclic graph. The Cartan matrix $C_G=C$ of $G$ is defined as the matrix with rows and colums indexed by the vertices of $G$ and $c_{i,j}$ counts the number of paths from $...
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Matrix of high rank mod $2$: must it have a large non-singular minor (with disjoint rows and columns)?

Let $A$ be a $2n$-by-$2n$ matrix with entries in $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ such that, for every $2n$-by-$2n$ diagonal matrix $D$ with entries in $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$, the matrix $A+D$ has rank $\...
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Rank and edges in a combinatorial graph?

Fix a $d\in\mathbb N$ and consider the matrix $M\in\{0,1\}^{2^d\times d}$ of all $0/1$ vectors of length $d$. Consider the matrix $G\in\{0,1\}^{n\times n}$ whose $ij$ the entry is $0$ if inner product ...
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Energy of a symmetric matrix with $0$, $1$ or $-1$ entries

I have a symmetric matrix with entries $0$, $1$ or $-1$ which appeared in my works in graph theory (the diagonal entries are all zero). I need a good upper bound for the energy of this matrix; i.e. "...
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Determining the primitive order of a binary matrix

Let ${\bf A}_n$ be an $2n \times 2n$ matrix that is defined as follows $$ {\bf A}_n=\left( \begin{array}{c} 0&0&\cdots&0&0&0&0&1&1\\ 0&0&\cdots&0&0&...
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Matrix Operations Preserving Hurwitz Stability

I begin with terminology I use in the question. A real square matrix $A$ is negative-stable if for every eigenvalue $\lambda$ of $A$, ${\mathrm{Re}}(\lambda) < 0$; $\ast$-negative-stable if for ...
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Space of change of basis matrices between two similar matrices - how to reduce it with additional tests?

Assume we have two real symmetric $n\times n$ matrices: $A, B$. We can easily test their similarity: $\textrm{Tr}(A^k)=\textrm{Tr}(B^k)$ for $k=1..n$. In this case both can be rotated to the same ...
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Which zero-diagonal matrices contain the all-one vector in their columns' conic hull?

Let $A$ be a non-negative zero-diagonal invertible matrix. Which $A$ make the following assertions true, which are all equivalent: The all-one vector $j$ is contained in the conic hull of $col(A)$. ...
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Walks of odd Lengths in a Matrix

Consider the following matrix $$ A=\left[ \begin {array}{cccc} 1&1&0&0\\ 0&0&1&0\\ 0&0&1&1\\ 1&0&0&0 \end {array} \right]. $$ Assume that $B=A^k$ ...
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Lower bound on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian

I am looking for a graph for which $2 d_{i} < \mu_{i}$, for some index $i$, where $\mu_{1} \leq \mu_{2} \leq \dots\leq \mu_{n}$ are the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix $L(G)$ and $d_{1} \leq d_{...
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What does the basis of the null space of the constraint matrix of a flow problem look like?

Consider a directed graph $G=(V,\mathbb{A})$ and a set of flow constraints of the following form: $$ \sum_{(u,v)\in\mathbb{A}}x_{u,v} - \sum_{(v,u)\in \mathbb{A}}x_{v,u} = 0 \forall v \in V$$ ...
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Zero diagonal nonsymmetric block checkerboard matrix: orbits and numerical ranges

Let $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times m}$ be a nonsymmetric zero diagonal matrix with a zero/non-zero pattern which is symmetric and persymmetric (i.e. symmetric in the northeast-to-southwest diagonal). If ...
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Is $L'L_\text{in}+L_\text{in}'L$ positive semi-definite?

Assume that $A$ is the adjacency matrix of a strongly connected directed graph, that is, $A$ is non-negative and irreducible. Let $$L_\text{in}=D_\text{in}-A',\;L=D_\text{in}-A'+D_\text{out}-A$$ where ...
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The (minimum) rank of a relation

$\DeclareMathOperator{\rk}{rk}$ For an integer $n\ge 1$, let $\mathcal R_n$ denote the set of all reflexive binary relations on $[n]$. I define the rank of a relation $R\in\mathcal R_n$ to be the ...
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Extracting a full rank matrix from a 0-1 matrix

If $A$ is a $n\!\times\!n$ $0$-$1$ matrix of rank $k<n$. If ever possible, what would be an efficient way of extracting a full rank $k\!\times\!k$ sub-matrix of $A$ by removing columns and rows of ...
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Reference request: Strong Connectivity and the Incidence Matrix

Question: What would be a good reference for characterizations of strong connectivity of a digraph in terms of its incidence matrix? Details: Consider a digraph $(V, E)$ with vertex set $$V = \{v_1,...
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Does this inequality always hold?

Denote the adjacency matrix of a given undirected graph by $g$. It is an $n$-by-$n$ symmetric Boolean matrix with elements on the diagonal to be zero ($n\geq 3$). Let $g_{12}=g_{21}=g_{13}=g_{31}=1$ ...
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Are these particular kinds of matrices well known?

Given two positive integers $n$ and $a \leq \frac{n}{2}$ consider a $n \times n$ matrix $A$ such that, all the diagonal entries are either $a$ or $a+1$ all the non-zero off-diagonal entries are $\pm ...
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How to restructure adjacency matrix $A$ from shortest distance matrix $B$ in Network topology inference

An undirected graph with $n$ nodes could be referred to as an adjacency matrix $A$. $A=[a_{ij}]_{n×n}$ with $a_{ij}=a_{ji}=1$ standing for there being an edge between node $i$ and node $j$, and no ...
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The spectral radius of a modified graph

Let $H$ be a graph and let $G=H \vee K_{1}$ be obtained by creating a new vertex and joining it to every vertex in $H$. This situation has many different names: $G$ is called the cone or the ...
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Upper bound on iterations count for power iteration algorithm

I'm stuck trying to get upper bound on iterations count for power iteration algroithm for finding first eigenvalue of adjacency matrix $A$ given tolerance value. I've tried to figure something out ...
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What is the largest possible operator norm of a sparse (0,1)-matrix?

Inspired by this question, I was wondering about the following problem: Consider all $n\times n$ $(0,1)$-matrices with $k$ ones. Which of these matrices has the largest operator norm? And how does ...
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Positive semidefinite decomposition, Laplacian eigenvalues, and the oriented incidence matrix

Suppose $A\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ is Hermitian and positive semidefinite with some decomposition $A=BB^*$, where $B=(b_{ij})\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times m}$ (not necessarily the Cholesky decomposition). ...
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Ax=0, estimate min(Hamming(x)) ? Equivalently: Bipartite graph. How to find (estimate) minimal number of vertices1 which are connected with EVEN number of vertices2 ? Equivalently: estimate minimal weight of error correcting code ?

Consider system of linear equations Ax=0 over $F_2$ (field with two elements {0,1}). Where number of variables is bigger than equations - so we have many solutions $x$. Question How to estimate ...
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Computing the multiplicity of an eigenvalue of a 0-1 symmetric matrix...

When we want to compute the multiplicity of an eigenvalue of a 0-1 symmetric matrix (viewed as the adjacency matrix of an undirected regular graph), we commonly resort to the know lemma of Feit and ...