In the last decade important relations between Laplace eigenvalues and eigenvectors of graphs and several other graph parameters were discovered. In these notes we present some of these results and discuss their consequences. Attention is given to the partition and the isoperimetric properties of graphs, the max-cut problem and its relation to semideenite programming, rapid mixing of Markov cha...

The D-eigenvalues {μ1, μ2, . . . , μn} of a graph G are the eigenvalues of its distance matrix D and form the D-spectrum of G denoted by specD(G) . The D-energy ED(G) of the graph G is the sum of the absolute values of its D-eigenvalues. We describe here the distance spectrum of some self-complementary graphs in the terms of their adjacency spectrum. These results are used to show that there ex...