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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)
 

Graphs with four distinct Laplacian eigenvalues

A. Mohammadian and B. Tayfeh-Rezaie2

2A. Mohammadian

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-011-0287-3

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate connected nonregular graphs with four distinct Laplacian eigenvalues. We characterize all such graphs which are bipartite or have exactly one multiple Laplacian eigenvalue. Other examples of interest are also presented.

Pages: 671–682

Keywords: keywords Laplacian eigenvalue; bipartite graph; multiple eigenvalue

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