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Number of walks and degree powers in a graph

Combinatorics 2012-06-06 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

This note deals with the relationship between the total number of kk-walks in a graph, and the sum of the kk-th powers of its vertex degrees. In particular, it is shown that the the number of all kk-walks is upper bounded by the sum of the kk-th powers of the degrees.

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@article{arxiv.1206.0860,
  title  = {Number of walks and degree powers in a graph},
  author = {M. A. Fiol and E. Garriga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0860},
  year   = {2012}
}