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Characterizing the second smallest eigenvalue of the normalized Laplacian of a tree

Combinatorics 2013-06-12 v1

Abstract

In this paper we show a monotonicity theorem for the harmonic eigenfunction of \lambda_{1} of the normalized Laplacian over the points of articulation of a graph. We introduce the definition of Perron component for the normalized Laplacian matrix of a graph and show how its second smallest eigenvalue can be characterized using this definition.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2374,
  title  = {Characterizing the second smallest eigenvalue of the normalized Laplacian of a tree},
  author = {Israel Rocha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2374},
  year   = {2013}
}
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