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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

A relation between the Laplacian and signless Laplacian eigenvalues of a graph

Saieed Akbari , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Jack H. Koolen and Mohammad Reza Oboudi

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-010-0225-9

Abstract

Let G be a graph of order n such that å i=0 n( -1) i a i l n - i \sum_{i=0}^{n}(-1)^{i}a_{i}λ^{n-i} and å i=0 n( -1) i b i l n - i \sum_{i=0}^{n}(-1)^{i}b_{i}λ^{n-i} are the characteristic polynomials of the signless Laplacian and the Laplacian matrices of G, respectively. We show that a i \geq  b i for i=0,1,\cdots , n. As a consequence, we prove that for any α , 0< α \leq 1, if q 1,\cdots , q n and μ  1,\cdots , μ  n are the signless Laplacian and the Laplacian eigenvalues of G, respectively, then q 1 a+ \frac{1}{4} + q n a $^{3}$ m 1 a+ \frac{1}{4} + m n a q_{1}^{α}+\cdots+q_{n}^{α}\geq\mu_{1}^{α}+\cdots+μ_{n}^{α}.

Pages: 459–464

Keywords: keywords Laplacian; signless Laplacian; incidence energy; Laplacian-like energy

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