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The signless Laplacian spectral radius of graphs with given number of cut vertices

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, P.R. China

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the graph with maximal signless Laplacian spectral radius among all connected graphs with fixed order and given number of cut vertices.

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graph, cut vertex, signless Laplacian matrix, spectral radius

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory
2010/30/1
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Pages:
85-93
Main language of publication
English
Received
2008-04-25
Accepted
2009-01-02
Published
2010

DOI: 10.7151/dmgt.1478

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