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A Nordhaus-Gaddum type problem for the normalized Laplacian spectrum and graph Cheeger constant

Combinatorics 2023-04-05 v1

Abstract

For a graph GG on nn vertices with normalized Laplacian eigenvalues 0=λ1(G)λ2(G)λn(G)0 = \lambda_1(G) \leq \lambda_2(G) \leq \cdots \leq \lambda_n(G) and graph complement GcG^c, we prove that \begin{equation*} \max\{\lambda_2(G),\lambda_2(G^c)\}\geq \frac{2}{n^2}. \end{equation*} We do this by way of lower bounding max{i(G),i(Gc)}\max\{i(G), i(G^c)\} and max{h(G),h(Gc)}\max\{h(G), h(G^c)\} where i(G)i(G) and h(G)h(G) denote the isoperimetric number and Cheeger constant of GG, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2304.01979,
  title  = {A Nordhaus-Gaddum type problem for the normalized Laplacian spectrum and graph Cheeger constant},
  author = {J. Nolan Faught and Mark Kempton and Adam Knudson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01979},
  year   = {2023}
}