Bounding the diameter and the mean distance of a graph from its eigenvalues: Laplacian versus adjacency matrix methods

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 196, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 267-275

  Rodriguez J A ^a   Yebra, J L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diameter; Graph eigenvalues; Laplacian eigenvalues; Mean distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010749222     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-365X(98)00206-4     Document Type: Article

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