05C50 Online Seminar: Rajesh Kannan

  • Date: 03/10/2023
  • Time: 08:00
Lecturer(s):
Rajesh Kannan, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (India)
Location: 

University of Manitoba

Topic: 

On the Eccentricity Matrices of Trees: Invertibility, Inertia and Spectral Symmetry

Description: 

The eccentricity matrix ε(G) of a connected graph G is obtained from the distance matrix of G by keeping the largest nonzero entries in each row and each column, and leaving zeros in the remaining ones. The eigenvalues of ε(G) are the ε-eigenvalues of G. It is well-known that the distance matrices of trees are invertible, and the determinant of such a matrix depend only on the number of vertices of the tree. We show that the eccentricity matrix of tree T is invertible if and only if either T is star or P_4. Also we show that any tree with odd diameter has 4 distinct ε-eigenvalues, and any tree with even diameter has the same number of positive and negative ε-eigenvalues (which is equal to the number of ’diametrically distinguished’ vertices). Finally, we will discuss trees with ε-eigenvalues that are symmetric with respect to the origin. This is joint work with Iswar Mahato.

 

The slides and a recording of this talk will be posted on the original website.

Organizers:

Stephen Kirkland, University of Manitoba 

Hermie Monterde, University of Manitoba

Other Information: 

The 05C50 Online is an international seminar about graphs and matrices held twice a month on Fridays.

 

Time: 8AM Pacific/10AM Central 

 

For more information, visit https://sites.google.com/view/05c50online/home. 

 

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