The lower spectral radius, or joint spectral subradius, of a set of real d× d matrices is defined to be the smallest possible exponential growth rate of long products of matrices drawn from that set. The lower spectral radius arises naturally in connection with a number of topics including combinatorics on words, the stability of linear inclusions in control theory, and the study of random Cant...

In this paper some upper and lower bounds for the greatest eigenvalues of the PI and vertex PI matrices of a graph G are obtained. Those graphs for which these bounds are best possible are characterized.

 It is known that the directed cycle of order $n$ uniquely achieves the minimum spectral radius among all strongly connected digraphs of order $nge 3$. In this paper, among others, we determine the digraphs which achieve the second, the third and the fourth minimum spectral radii respectively among strongly connected digraphs of order $nge 4$.  

We give further results for Perron-Frobenius theory on the numericalrange of real matrices and some other results generalized from nonnegative matricesto real matrices. We indicate two techniques for establishing the main theorem ofPerron and Frobenius on the numerical range. In the rst method, we use acorresponding version of Wielandt's lemma. The second technique involves graphtheory.

it is known that the directed cycle of order $n$ uniquely achieves the minimum spectral radius among all strongly connected digraphs of order $nge 3$. in this paper, among others, we determine the digraphs which achieve the second, the third and the fourth minimum spectral radii respectively among strongly connected digraphs of order $nge 4$.

let $n$ be any positive integer, the friendship graph $f_n$ consists of $n$ edge-disjoint triangles that all of them meeting in one vertex. a graph $g$ is called cospectral with a graph $h$ if their adjacency matrices have the same eigenvalues. recently in href{http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6529v1.pdf}{http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6529v1.pdf} it is proved that if $g$ is any graph cospectral with $f_n$...

let $g$ be a simple graph with vertex set $v(g) = {v_1, v_2,ldots, v_n}$ and $d_i$ the degree of its vertex $v_i$, $i = 1, 2,cdots, n$. inspired by the randi'c matrix and the general randi'cindex of a graph, we introduce the concept of general randi'cmatrix $textbf{r}_alpha$ of $g$, which is defined by$(textbf{r}_alpha)_{i,j}=(d_id_j)^alpha$ if $v_i$ and $v_j$ areadjacent, and zero otherwise. s...