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On the Brouwer-type Conjecture for Signless Laplacian Eigenvalues of Graphs

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 14 references
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Motivated by Brouwer's conjecture, Ashraf, Omidi and Tayfeh-Rezaie proposed the following Brouwer-type conjecture that for every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with $m$ edges, the sum $S_k^+(G)$ of its $k$ largest signless Laplacian eigenvalues satisfies $S_k^+(G)\le m+\binom{k+1}{2}$ for $k=1, \ldots, n$. In this paper, we prove that the above conjecture holds. Moreover, the equality holds if and only if $k=1$ and $G$ is either star $K_{1,a}$ or triangle $K_3$ with adding some isolated vertices. For split graphs, properties of block signless Laplacian matrices based on clique and independent set are adapted. While for non-split graphs, some spectral graph substructure are used to control the sum of signless Laplacian eigenvalues.

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