Laplacian energy of a graph

Let G be a graph with n vertices and m edges. Let λ1, λ2, … , λn be the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of G, and let μ1, μ2, … , μn be the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix of G. An earlier much studied quantity is the energy of the graph G. We now define and investigate the Laplacian energy as . There is a great deal of analogy between the properties of E(G) and LE(G), but also some significant differences.