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A Sharp Upper Bound on Algebraic Connectivity Using Domination Number

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Let G be a connected graph of order n. The algebraic connectivity of G is the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of G. A dominating set in G is a vertex subset S such that each vertex of G that is not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S. The least cardinality of a dominating set is the domination number. In this paper, we prove a sharp upper bound on the algebraic connectivity of a connected graph in terms of the domination number and characterize the associated extremal graphs.

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A sharp upper bound on algebraic connectivity using domination number
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Linear Algebra and its Applications, 432(11), 2879–2893, 2010 BibTeX reference