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Let $q\left( G\right) $ be the $Q$-index (the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian) of $G$. Let $S_{n,k}$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a complete graph of order $k$ to each vertex of an independent set of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Xiying Yuan

For a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with normalized Laplacian eigenvalues $0 = \lambda_1(G) \leq \lambda_2(G) \leq \cdots \leq \lambda_n(G)$ and graph complement $G^c$, we prove that \begin{equation*} \max\{\lambda_2(G),\lambda_2(G^c)\}\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 J. Nolan Faught , Mark Kempton , Adam Knudson

In this paper, we consider the bounds for the largest eigenvalue and the sum of the $k$ largest Laplacian eigenvalues of signed graphs. Firstly, we give an upper bound on the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a signed graph and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Linfeng Xie , Xiaogang Liu

Brouwer conjectured that the sum of the first $k$ largest Laplacian eigenvalues of an $n$-vertex graph is less than or equal to the number of its edges plus $\binom{k+1}{2}$ for each $k\in \{1,2,\cdots,n\}$, which has come to be known as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Xiaodan Chen , Junwei Zi

Let G be a simple graph on $n$ vertices and $e(G)$ edges. Consider $Q(G) = D + A$ as the signless Laplacian of $G$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix and $D$ is the diagonal matrix of the vertices degree of $G$. Let $q_1(G)$ and $q_2(G)$ be…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-01 Carla Silva Oliveira , Leonardo de Lima , Paula Rama , Paula Carvalho

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph with Laplacian eigenvalues $0=\lambda_1(G)\le \lambda_2(G)\le\cdots\le \lambda_n(G)$. Motivated by the Alon-Boppana bound and the Ramanujan phenomenon for regular graphs, Spielman conjectured that, for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jie Ma , Quanyu Tang , Yuchang Wang , Zhiheng Zheng

Brouwer's Conjecture states that, for any graph $G$, the sum of the $k$ largest (combinatorial) Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$ is at most $|E(G)| + \binom{k+1}{2}$, $1 \leq k \leq n$. We present several interrelated results establishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Joshua N. Cooper

Let $Q(G)=D(G)+A(G)$ be the signless Laplacian matrix of a simple graph $G$, where $D(G)$ and $A(G)$ are the degree diagonal matrix and the adjacency matrix of $G$, respectively. The largest eigenvalue of $Q(G)$, denoted by $q(G)$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Yuxiang Liu , Ligong Wang

The work in this thesis concerns the investigation of eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix, normalized Laplacian matrix, signless Laplacian matrix and distance signless Laplacian matrix of graphs. In Chapter 1, we present a brief…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Bilal A. Rather

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, let $\tau(G)$ denote the minimum number of pairwise edge disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs of $G$ so that each edge of $G$ belongs to exactly one of them. It is easy to see that for every graph $G$, $\tau(G) \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Noga Alon

This paper gives tight upper bounds on the largest eigenvalue q(G) of the signless Laplacian of graphs with no 4-cycle and no 5-cycle. If n is odd, let F_{n} be the friendship graph of order n; if n is even, let F_{n} be F_{n-1} with an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-08 Maria Aguieiras A. de Freitas , Vladimir Nikiforov , Laura Patuzzi

This paper gives a tight upper bound on the spectral radius of the signless Laplacian of graphs of given order and clique number. More precisely, let G be a graph of order n, let A be its adjacency matrix, and let D be the diagonal matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Nair Maria Maia de Abreu , Vladimir Nikiforov

For a connected graph \(G\), let $q(G)$ denote the $Q$-index of $G$, i.e., the largest eigenvalue of its signless Laplacian matrix. Abreu and Nikiforov (2013) showed that \[ q(G) \leq 2n\left(1-\frac{1}{\omega(G)}\right), \] where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 M. Rajesh Kannan , Hitesh Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

If $\mu_m$ and $d_m$ denote, respectively, the $m$-th largest Laplacian eigenvalue and the $m$-th largest vertex degree of a graph, then $\mu_m \geqslant d_m-m+2$. This inequality was conjectured by Guo in 2007 and proved by Brouwer and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Gary R. W. Greaves , Akihiro Munemasa , Anni Peng

We offer a new method for proving that the maximal eigenvalue of the normalized graph Laplacian of a graph with $n$ vertices is at least $\frac{n+1}{n-1}$ provided the graph is not complete and that equality is attained if and only if the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jürgen Jost , Raffaella Mulas , Florentin Münch

Let $G$ be a finite, undirected $d$-regular graph and $A(G)$ its normalized adjacency matrix, with eigenvalues $1 = \lambda_1(A)\geq \dots \ge \lambda_n \ge -1$. It is a classical fact that $\lambda_n = -1$ if and only if $G$ is bipartite.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Nina Moorman , Peter Ralli , Prasad Tetali

Graphs with few distinct eigenvalues have been investigated extensively. In this paper, we focus on another relevant topic: characterizing graphs with some eigenvalue of large multiplicity. Specifically, the normalized Laplacian matrix of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Fenglei Tian , Dein Wong

A signless Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph $G$ is called a main signless Laplacian eigenvalue if it has an eigenvector the sum of whose entries is not equal to zero. In this paper, all connected bicyclic graphs with exactly two main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-10 He Huang , Hanyuan Deng

The Laplacian matrix of a graph $G$ is denoted by $L(G)=D(G)-A(G)$, where $D(G)=diag(d(v_{1}),\ldots , d(v_{n}))$ is a diagonal matrix and $A(G)$ is the adjacency matrix of $G$. Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two graphs. A one-edge connection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Masoumeh Farkhondeh , Mohammad Habibi , Dost Ali Mojdeh , Yongsheng Rao

Let $G$ be a connected simple graph of order $n$. Let $\rho_1(G)\geq \rho_2(G)\geq \cdots \geq \rho_{n-1}(G)> \rho_n(G)=0$ be the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix $\mathcal{L}(G)$ of $G$. Denote by $m(\rho_i)$ the multiplicity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Fenglei Tian , Yiju Wang