We examine the problem of exactly or approximately counting all perfect matchings in hereditary classes of nonbipartite graphs. In particular, we consider the switch Markov chain of Diaconis, Graham and Holmes. We determine the largest hereditary class for which the chain is ergodic, and define a large new hereditary class of graphs for which it is rapidly mixing. We go on to show that the chai...

For any class C of bipartite graphs, we define quasi-C to be the class of all graphs G such that every bipartition of G belongs to C. This definition is motivated by a generalisation of the switch Markov chain on perfect matchings from bipartite graphs to nonbipartite graphs. The monotone graphs, also known as bipartite permutation graphs and proper interval bigraphs, are such a class of bipart...

The ability to simulate graphs with given properties is important for the analysis of social networks. Sequential importance sampling has been shown to be particularly effective in estimating the number of graphs adhering to fixed marginals and in estimating the null distribution of test statistics. This paper builds on the work of Chen et al. (2005), providing an intuitive explanation of the s...

‎in this paper we introduce mixed unitary cayley graph $m_{n}$‎ ‎$(n>1)$ and compute its eigenvalues‎. ‎we also compute the energy of‎ ‎$m_{n}$ for some $n$‎.

The class of chain graphs (CGs) involving both undirected graphs (=Markov networks) and directed acyclic graphs (= Bayesian networks) was introduced in middle eighties for description of probabilistic conditional independence structures. Every class of Markov equivalent CGs (that is, CGs describing the same conditional independence structure) has a natural representative, which is called the la...

We consider an edge-isoperimetric problem (EIP) on the cartesian powers of graphs. One of our objectives is to extend the list of graphs for whose cartesian powers the lexicographic order provides nested solutions for the EIP. We present several new classes of such graphs that include as special cases all presently known graphs with this property. Our new results are applied to derive best poss...

We introduce nite relational structures called sketches, that represent edge crossings in drawings of nite graphs. We consider the problem of characterizing sketches in Monadic Second-Order logic. We answer positively the question for framed sketches, i.e., for those representing drawings of graphs consisting of a planar connected spanning subgraph (the frame) augmented with additional edges th...

Let c : E(G) → [k] be an edge-coloring of a graph G, not necessarily proper. For each vertex v, let c̄(v) = (a1, . . . , ak), where ai is the number of edges incident to v with color i. Reorder c̄(v) for every v in G in nonincreasing order to obtain c∗(v), the color-blind partition of v. When c∗ induces a proper vertex coloring, that is, c∗(u) 6= c∗(v) for every edge uv in G, we say that c is col...

In graphical modelling, the existence of substantive background knowledge on block ordering of variables is used to perform structural learning within the family of chain graphs (CGs) in which every block corresponds to an undirected graph and edges joining vertices in different blocks are directed in accordance with the ordering.We show that this practice may lead to an inappropriate restricti...