let $r$ be a ring with unity. the undirected nilpotent graph of $r$, denoted by $gamma_n(r)$, is a graph with vertex set ~$z_n(r)^* = {0neq x in r | xy in n(r) for some y in r^*}$, and two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $xy in n(r)$, or equivalently, $yx in n(r)$, where $n(r)$ denoted the nilpotent elements of $r$. recently, it has been proved that if $r$ is a left ar...

Causal Graph Dynamics extend Cellular Automata to arbitrary, bounded-degree, time-varying graphs. The whole graph evolves in discrete time steps, and this global evolution is required to have a number of physics-like symmetries: shift-invariance (it acts everywhere the same) and causality (information has a bounded speed of propagation). We add a further physics-like symmetry, namely reversibil...

given a non-abelian finite group $g$, let $pi(g)$ denote the set of prime divisors of the order of $g$ and denote by $z(g)$ the center of $g$. thetextit{ prime graph} of $g$ is the graph with vertex set $pi(g)$ where two distinct primes $p$ and $q$ are joined by an edge if and only if $g$ contains an element of order $pq$ and the textit{non-commuting graph} of $g$ is the graph with the vertex s...

We prove that any Markov chain that performs local, reversible updates on randomly chosen vertices of a bounded-degree graph necessarily has mixing time at least Ω(n logn), where n is the number of vertices. Our bound applies to the so-called “Glauber dynamics” that has been used extensively in algorithms for the Ising model, independent sets, graph colorings and other structures in computer sc...

In 1973 R. Thomas introduced a logical approach to modeling and analysis of bioregulatory networks. Given a set of Boolean functions describing the regulatory interactions, a state transition graph is constructed that captures the dynamics of the system. In the late eighties, Snoussi and Thomas extended the original framework by including singular values corresponding to interaction thresholds....

Swarming behaviour is a type of bacterial motility that has been found to be dependent on reaching a local density threshold of cells. With this in mind, the process through which cell-to-cell interactions develop and how an assembly of cells reaches collective motility becomes increasingly important to understand. Additionally, populations of cells and organisms have been modelled through grap...