The Graph Complement Conjecture for the Colin de Verdière parameter ν\nu

Let GG be a graph, let GcG^c be its complement, and let ν(G)\nu(G) be the maximum nullity among positive semidefinite matrices in S(G)\mathcal{S}(G) satisfying the Strong Arnold property. Let \ordG\ord G denote the number of vertices of GG.

Graph Complement Conjecture for ν\nu. For any graph GG,

ν(G)+ν(Gc)≥\ordG−2.\nu(G)+\nu(G^c)\geq \ord G-2.

The inequality is stronger than the corresponding minimum-rank conjectures because ν(G)≤M⁡+(G)≤M⁡(G)\nu(G)\leq \operatorname{M}_+(G)\leq \operatorname{M}(G). The source gives no general resolution here, although later results in the paper establish conditional bounds.

References

Primary source

Francesco Barioli, Shaun M. Fallat, Himanshu Gupta and Zhongshan Li, “The Weak Version of the Graph Complement Conjecture and Partial Results for the Delta Conjecture”, arXiv:2505.24577 (2025).

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