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Extremal chromatic bounds for distance Laplacian eigenvalues

arXiv:2604.1078529.1h-index: 11
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For spectral graph theorists, this provides refined eigenvalue distribution results and extremal characterizations for distance Laplacian matrices, though the contribution is incremental.

This paper proves a color-class majorization principle for distance Laplacian eigenvalues, yielding sharp lower bounds on the number of eigenvalues above the chromatic threshold and refining prior distribution theorems. It also characterizes all extremal graphs minimizing the largest distance Laplacian eigenvalue for a given chromatic number.

For a connected simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with chromatic number $χ$, the distance Laplacian matrix is $\DL( G)=\mathrm{diag}(\mathrm{Tr}_{ G}(v_1),\dots,\mathrm{Tr}_{ G}(v_n)) - D( G)$, where $D( G)$ is the distance matrix and $\mathrm{Tr}_{ G}(v)=\sum_{u\in V( G)} d_{ G}(u,v)$ is the transmission. The eigenvalues of $\DL( G)$ are ordered as $\partial^{L}_1( G)\ge \partial^{L}_2( G)\ge \cdots \ge \partial^{L}_n( G)=0$. Building on the chromatic lower bound $\partial^{L}_1( G)\ge n+\ceil{\frac{n}χ}$ and subsequent developments, we prove a \emph{color-class majorization principle}: if $(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_χ)$ are the color-class sizes in an optimal $χ$-coloring with $\ell_1\ge \cdots\ge \ell_χ$, then the first $\ell_1-1$ distance Laplacian eigenvalues satisfy $\partial^{L}_i( G)\ge n+\ell_1$, for $1\le i\le \ell_1-1$. This gives sharp lower bounds on the number of eigenvalues above the chromatic threshold $b_χ=n+\ceil{n/χ}$, thereby refining the distribution theorems of Aouchiche--Hansen (Filomat, 2017) and Pirzada--Khan (LAA, 2021). We further refine clique/independent-set based multiplicity results by deriving explicit chromatic criteria in terms of neighborhood compression, and we generalize the extremal problem for minimum $\partial^{L}_1$ at fixed chromatic number by characterizing all minimizers. Several numerical examples are included along with pictorial representations.

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