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Title: Bounds on the subdominant eigenvalue involving group inverses with applications to graphs (English)
Author: Kirkland, Stephen J.
Author: Neumann, Michael
Author: Shader, Bryan L.
Language: English
Journal: Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal
ISSN: 0011-4642 (print)
ISSN: 1572-9141 (online)
Volume: 48
Issue: 1
Year: 1998
Pages: 1-20
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: Let $A$ be an $n\times n$ symmetric, irreducible, and nonnegative matrix whose eigenvalues are $\lambda _1 > \lambda _2 \ge \ldots \ge \lambda _n$. In this paper we derive several lower and upper bounds, in particular on $\lambda _2$ and $\lambda _n$, but also, indirectly, on $\mu = \max _{2\le i \le n} |\lambda _i|$. The bounds are in terms of the diagonal entries of the group generalized inverse, $Q^{\#}$, of the singular and irreducible M-matrix $Q=\lambda _1 I-A$. Our starting point is a spectral resolution for $Q^{\#}$. We consider the case of equality in some of these inequalities and we apply our results to the algebraic connectivity of undirected graphs, where now $Q$ becomes $L$, the Laplacian of the graph. In case the graph is a tree we find a graph-theoretic interpretation for the entries of $L^{\#}$ and we also sharpen an upper bound on the algebraic connectivity of a tree, which is due to Fiedler and which involves only the diagonal entries of $L$, by exploiting the diagonal entries of $L^{\#}$. (English)
MSC: 05C40
MSC: 05C50
MSC: 15A09
MSC: 15A18
MSC: 15A42
MSC: 15A48
idZBL: Zbl 0931.15012
idMR: MR1614056
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Date available: 2009-09-24T10:10:27Z
Last updated: 2020-07-03
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/127394
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