Extending a conjecture of Graham and Lov\'{a}sz on the distance characteristic polynomial

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2023.03.027MaRDI QIDQ6402185WikidataFDO

Authors Aida Abiad, Boris Brimkov, Sakander Hayat, Antonina P. Khramova, Jack H. Koolen

Publication date 15 June 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Graph polynomials (05C31) Distance in graphs (05C12) Graph designs and isomorphic decomposition (05C51)

Abstract: Graham and Lov'{a}sz conjectured in 1978 that the sequence of normalized coefficients of the distance characteristic polynomial of a tree of order $n$ is unimodal with the maximum value occurring at $lfloorfracn2floor$. In this paper we investigate this problem for block graphs. In particular, we prove the unimodality part and we establish the peak for several extremal cases of uniform block graphs with small diameter.

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