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Proof is needed for a lower bound of the maximal eigen-value of a non-negative, irreducible, integer matrix

$A$ is a non-negative, integer, irreducible, $m$ by $m$ matrix. It is well known (Perron-Frobenius) that $A$ has a positive eigen value (denote it by $\lambda$) with a positive eigen vector ($x$). It ...
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The meaning of the entries of eigenvectors of graphs

I would like an explanation to the meaning of the different entries of the eigenvectors of a graph. Furthermore, I'd be happy if anyone can spare an explanation for the meaning of the entries of any ...
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Extracting hitting times from the pseudoinverse of a Laplacian matrix for an undirected graph

Provided a pseudoinverted Laplacian matrix for an undirected graph $G$, how can I extract first passage and commute times between vertex pairs in $G$?
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Signed incidence matrix determinant and spanning tree

$G=(V,E)$ is a directed graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, $n \geq 2$. $F \subseteq E$ and $|F| = n -1$. $Q$ is the $n \times m$ signed incidence matrix of $G$ over indeterminates $x_e$ with $e ...
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how the number of steps needed depends on the number of nodes and depends on the transmission range?

I run the consensus algorithm, and for each round k, we record the norm of the disagreement vector(|(|δ(k)|)|>〖10〗^(-6)). We stop, at a predefined value|(|δ(k)|)|>〖10〗^(-6) and we call this ...
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Adjacency matrix

Let $G$ be any simple and undirected graph. Let $A$ be the adjacency matrix of $G$. 1) Let $B$ be the number $\tfrac16\mathrm{tr}(A^3)$. What does $B$ count? That is $B$ counts the number of....? 2) ...
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Delocalization of eigenvectors in Expanding Graphs

Given an adjacency matrix A, can we say something about whether the eigenvectors corresponding to its highest(or second-highest) eigenvalues are delocalized ? By delocalization I mean that every ...
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How can i convert to the undirected matrix to an directed matrix?

Here A square matrix and first figure(AU) shows undirected connection graph and second one shows directed one.Assume that only i have Au metrix and how can i create Ad metrix from Au matrix in ...
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finding the decomposition of Laplacian matrix with position of zero elements unchanged

I'd like to know whether it's possible to find the decomposition of a Lapalacian matrix $A$ $B^TB = A$ where $B$ has the same dimension with $A$ and the position of zero elements in $B$ is the same ...
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Graphs with zero spectrum / nilpotent symmetric matrices

Is there a graph theoretic characterization of those graphs with zero spectrum? Alternatively, can one at least characterize all symmetric nilpotent (complex) matrices, so that one could recognize ...
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Prove that a strongly connected digraph has an irreducible adjacency matrix?

In our homework we are asked to prove the above fact. If anybody would be willing to give advice I would be most thankful. Thanks
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Prove $MM^t=A+kI$ for matrices associated to graphs

How can I prove that $MM^t=A+kI$ for incidence matrix $M$ and adjacency matrix $A$ of a $k$-regular graph with $n$ vertices? It is easy to see that $MM^t$ is an $n\times n$-matrix (like $A$), ...
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Nilpotency of the adjacency matrix of a directed tree network

Say I have a directed network that is organized in a tree, with all connections going downstream (genealogically). By that I mean that there is one root node connected to $c_{00}$ child nodes, and ...
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Low-rank approximation to the Graph Laplacian matrix of a regular grid.

As mentioned in the title, does anybody know any methods of efficient low-rank approximation $LL^T$ to the Graph Laplacian matrix $A$ corresponding to a square lattice? (except PCA)
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What is the difference between first and second right eigenvectors of a row stochastic matrix and their meaning?

In an $n\times n$ non negative row stochastic matrix (rows sum up to 1). The entries of the stochastic matrix I have represent directed links between countries. Why is the first right eigenvector a ...
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Graph of a matrix and a positive power for the the matrix

A graph has a path from node $j$ to node $i$ if and only if its adjacency matrix has a positive element $(i,j)$ of $A^k$ for some integer $k.$ A proof for this statement will be highly appreciated.
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A multiple-part question about interpreting powers of the adjacency matrix of a graph

Suppose that we have a group of six people, each of whom owns a communication device. We define a $6\times 6$ matrix $A$ as follows: For $1\le i\le 6$, let $a_{ii}=0$; and for $i\ne j$, ...
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Name of the inverse of a reduced node-arc incidence matrix

So I basically have a directed incidence matrix 'A' and its inverse 's' has been labelled as "sensitivity matrix"; is that right? {the label is a comment in a matlab program} Also, it's been said ...
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How to test if a graph is fully connected and finding isolated graphs from an adjacency matrix

I have large sparse adjacency matrices that may or maybe not be fully connected. I would like to find out if a matrix is fully connected or not and if it is, which groups of nodes belong to a ...
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What is the name of the matrices which reorder edges in an adjancency so that they are closer to the diagonal? (modularity/structure)

I have seen adjacency matrices presented where the edges formed box like formations along the diagonal (not block matrices). This helped view the modularity and community structure of the group of ...
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Easiest way to determine all disconnected sets from a graph?

Suppose that I have a un-directed graph of nodes and edges, I would like to know all sets of nodes that do not connect with any other nodes in the graph. Here is a concrete example to help you ...
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When does the adjacency or incidence matrix of a graph have consecutive ones property?

Given a graph, what are some sufficient (and necessary) conditions to tell if its adjacency matrix has the consecutive ones property? Similar question for its incidence matrix? Note that a ...
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Graphs with commuting adjacency matrices

Let A and B be adjacency matrix of two undirected simple graphs. Can we assign some combinatorial interpretations to this pair of graphs if A and B commute?
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Adjacency matrices needed for common graphs

I'm making a program which requires adjacency matrices of undirected graphs. In particular, I'd like the adjacency matrices for the graphs in this wiki link: ...
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Quantities measuring the sparseness of a graph and of a matrix?

What are some quantities often used to measure the sparseness of a graph? For example, in a graph, with the number of vertices fixed, the smaller the maximum degree is, the more sparse the graph is. ...
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Abbreviations in Combinatorial Graph/Matrix theory

I'm getting started with research in combinatorics. I have come across a reference that uses a great deal of abbreviations. I was able to figure most of them out but there are a few that I can find. ...
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Strongly connected graph associated with a matrix

This type of matrices $L$ is called Leslie type matrices in Population dynamics: $$L = \begin{pmatrix} f_{11} & f_{12} & f_{13} & \dotsm & f_{1,i-1} & f_{1,i}& \dotsm & ...
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Graph Theory Shortest Path Problem via Matrix Operations in MatLab

Here is something that has been getting the best of me for past few days. Hopefully someone can point me get in the right direction. I have a graph G, and I need ...
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When a directed graph is represented in matrix form, what is the interpretation of the inverse of this matrix?

Let $G$ be a directed (unweighted) graph with $n$ nodes. We can represent $G$ with an $n \times n$ binary matrix $A$, with $A_{ij} = 1$ if there is an edge $i \to j$ and $A_{ij} = 0$ otherwise. ...
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Possible relation between spectra bounds of two matrices

A Laplacian matrix $L\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, is a symmetric matrix with entries, \begin{equation} l_{ij}=\begin{cases} 1=\sum_{i,~ i\neq j} w_{ij} &\mbox{if } i=j \\ -w_{ij} & ...
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how to calculate the spectrum and inertia of sign pattern matrix?

I want to know how to calculate the spectrum and inertia of sign pattern matrix, how to use Nilpotent-Jacobian method to solve the problem about determinating spectrally arbitrary and inertially ...
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Calculating powers of 2 on a 2D grid without factoring.

Consider the following 2D infinitely large grid where the dots represent infinity: ...
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How to prove that a matrix is positive definite?

Let $L$ be a Laplacian matrix of a strong connected and balanced directed graph. Define $$ L^{s}=\frac{1}{2}\left( L+L^{T}\right) .$$ Let $D$ be a diagonal matrix with $$ D=\begin{bmatrix} d_{1} & ...
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Reading a Laplacian Matrix and its labeled graph?

How can the following labeled graph be extracted from the Laplacian Matrix below and viceversa? I had a look at this great conversation but it is already too advanced for me.
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Orbits of adjacency matrices under conjugation by permutation matrices.

(Disclaimer: I am new here, so be patient with my mistakes, but I welcome corrections, advice or comments.) I am interested in if anyone knows of ways of characterizing the orbits of an adjacency ...
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Significance of eigenvalue

When I represent a graph with a matrix and calculate its eigenvalues what does it signify? I mean, what will spectral analysis of a graph tell me?
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Transitive reduction: calculating “relation composition” of matrices?

I have graphs represented by matrices. For example, $\begin{matrix} 0&0&0\\1&0&0\\1&1&0\end{matrix}$ Produces this graph: The graphs are supposed to be transitive, i.e. ...
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Random Walks and Jumps

I am trying to understand why Random Walks' and Random Jumps', on a graph, transition matrix are also stochastic matrix. A stochastic matrix is a matrix the values of each row add up to 1 and no ...
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Finding All Spanning Tree

Given a regular directed graph $G(n,d)$, where $d$ is the total of in-degree dan out-degree and $n$ is the number of vertices (so that $G(n,d)$ has $dn$ edges). Let $A \in M_n (\{0,1\})$ matrix which ...
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Transition matrix

I have a directed graph $G_1$. I extract its transition matrix $T_1$. Now I also have directed graph $G_2$, which is equal to $G_1$ with inverted edges. If I get its transition matrix $T_2$, what is ...
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Given any polynomial p(x) over Z, can one construct a graph with characteristic polynomial p(x)?

Given any polynomial $p(x)$ over $\mathbb{Z}$, can one construct a graph with characteristic polynomial $p(x)$? [Edit: Title question added to post.} Further questions include: Are there classes of ...
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Counting paths of a variable length on a directed graph

If I've been given a directed Graph $G = (V,E)$ and its adjacency matrix $A$. How do I calculate how many (directed) paths do exist from one specific node to another (specific) one? In general ...
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Graph Invariants (covering design)

I am not a mathematician so please take that into consideration when formulating your answers.  Technically 2 graphs are NOT isomorphic if any one of the countless graph invariants (i.e. vertices, ...
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eigen decomposition of an interesting matrix (general case)

Lets define: $U=\left \{ u_j\right \} , 1 \leq j\leq N= b^{L},$ the set of all different sequences of length $L$ where each element of the sequence can be an integer in $\left \{ 0, 1, .., b-1 ...
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eigen decomposition of an interesting matrix

Lets define: $U=\left \{ u_j\right \} , 1 \leq j\leq N= 2^{L},$ the set of all different binary sequences of length $L$. $V=\left \{ v_i\right \} , 1 \leq i\leq M=\binom{L}{k}2^{k},$ the set of ...
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Rank of an interesting matrix

Lets define: $U=\left \{ u_j\right \} , 1 \leq j\leq N= 2^{L},$ the set of all different binary sequences of length $L$. $V=\left \{ v_i\right \} , 1 \leq i\leq M=\binom{L}{k}2^{k},$ the set of ...
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Rank of a graph matrix

$G$ is a bipartite graph with $2m$ nodes on the left $(u_0..u_{2m-1})$, and $2^{m}$ nodes on the right $(v_0..v_{2^{m}-1})$. There is an edge (connection) between $u_i$ and $v_j$ iff $(i+1)$'th ...
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Knowledge about Graph Spectral Theory and correlation between a graph Weighted Adjacency matrix and its eigenvalues

I know that this question is some sort of bridge between Informatics and Mathematics, not knowing the best place where to post this question, I opted for this place because of the type of answer I ...
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connection between graphs and the eigenvectors of their matrix representation

I am trying to learn graph theory and the linear algebra used to analyse graphs. The texts I have read through have lots of lemmas and theorems proved. The proofs are convincing but I fail to see the ...