The Laplacian spread of a graph is defined to be the difference between the largest eigenvalue and the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of the graph. In this paper, we investigate Laplacian spread of graphs, and prove that there exist exactly five types of tricyclic graphs with maximum Laplacian spread among all tricyclic graphs of fixed order.

In 1986, Terwilliger showed that there is a strong relation between the eigenvalues of a distance-regular graph and the eigenvalues of a local graph. In particular, he showed that the eigenvalues of a local graph are bounded in terms of the eigenvalues of a distance-regular graph, and he also showed that if an eigenvalue θ of the distance-regular graph has multiplicity m less than its valency k...

We first establish the relationship between the largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a graph and its bipartite density. Then we present lower and upper bounds for the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph in terms of its largest degree and diameter.

Not long ago, Bagga, Beineke, and Varma [1] defined the super line multigraph of a simple graph Γ = (V,E) to be the graph Mr(Γ) whose vertex set is Pr(E), the class of r-element subsets of the edge set, and with an adjacency R ∼ R′ (where R,R′ ∈ Pr(E)) for every edge pair (e, f) with e ∈ R and f ∈ R′ such that e and f are adjacent in Γ. Thus, the number of edges joining R and R′ in Mr(Γ) is the...

In this paper, only simple graphs are considered. A graphG is nonsingular if its adjacency matrix A(G) is nonsingular. A nonsingular graph G satisfies reciprocal eigenvalue property (property R) if the reciprocal of each eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix A(G) is also an eigenvalue of A(G) and G satisfies strong reciprocal eigenvalue property (property SR) if the reciprocal of each eigenvalue o...

Given a graph and a vector defined on the graph, a quadratic form is defined on the graph depending on its edges. In order to minimize the quadratic form on trees or unicyclic graphs associated with signless Laplacian, the notion of basic edge set of a graph is introduced, and the behavior of the least eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvectors is investigated. Using these results a characte...

Given a graph and a vector defined on the graph, a quadratic form is defined on the graph depending on its edges. In order to minimize the quadratic form on trees or unicyclic graphs associated with signless Laplacian, the notion of basic edge set of a graph is introduced, and the behavior of the least eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvectors is investigated. Using these results a characte...

We consider several semidefinite programming relaxations for the max-k-cut problem, with increasing complexity. The optimal solution of the weakest presented semidefinite programming relaxation has a closed form expression that includes the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of the graph under consideration. This is the first known eigenvalue bound for the max-k-cut when k > 2 that is applicable to a...

In this paper, we explore what happens when the same techniques are applied to the problem of estimating eigenvalues of the adjacency operator on finite graphs of bounded degree. In Theorem 7, we show how eigenvalues of the adjacency operator on a finite graph Γ may be bounded in terms of the biggest eigenvalues of the adjacency operator on “geodesic balls” in Γ. We find explicit bounds for the...