Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4657485 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 2007 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

We study the spectral radius of connected non-regular graphs. Let λ1(n,Δ) be the maximum spectral radius among all connected non-regular graphs with n vertices and maximum degree Δ. We prove that Δ−λ1(n,Δ)=Θ(Δ/n2). This improves two recent results by Stevanović and Zhang, respectively.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics