The Grone-Merris Conjecture
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In spectral graph theory, the Grone-Merris Conjecture asserts that the spectrum of the Laplacian matrix of a finite graph is majorized by the conjugate degree sequence of this graph. We give a complete proof for this conjecture.References
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Additional Information
- Hua Bai
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
- Email: baihu@bc.edu, huabai@alumni.usc.edu
- Received by editor(s): November 12, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 11, 2009, January 1, 2010, and May 28, 2010
- Published electronically: March 23, 2011
- Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0604866
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 363 (2011), 4463-4474
- MSC (2010): Primary 15A42; Secondary 05C50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05393-6
- MathSciNet review: 2792996