Largest Eigenvalue of the Laplacian Matrix: Its Eigenspace and Transitive Orientations

We study the eigenspace with largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a simple graph. We find a surprising connection of this space with the theory of modular decomposition of Gallai, whereby eigenvectors can be used to discover modules. In the case of comparability graphs, eigenvectors are use...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iriarte Giraldo, Benjamin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110183