On the log-concavity of Laplacian characteristic polynomials of graphs
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Let G be a graph and L(G) be the Laplacian matrix of G. In this article, we first point out that the sequence of the moduli of Laplacian coefficients of G is log-concave and hence unimodal. Using this fact, we provide an upper bound for the partial sums of the Laplacian eigenvalues of G, based on coefficients of its Laplacian characteristic polynomial. We then obtain some lower bounds on the algebraic connectivity of G. Finally, we investigate the mode of such sequences.
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