{ "id": "0906.0827", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-06-04T04:10:25.000Z", "updated": "2009-06-04T04:10:25.000Z", "title": "Note for Nikiforov's two conjectures on the energy of trees", "authors": [ "Xueliang Li", "Jianxi Liu" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "The energy $E$ of a graph is defined to be the sum of the absolute values of its eigenvalues. Nikiforov in {\\it ``V. Nikiforov, The energy of $C_4$-free graphs of bounded degree, Lin. Algebra Appl. 428(2008), 2569--2573\"} proposed two conjectures concerning the energy of trees with maximum degree $\\Delta\\leq 3$. In this short note, we show that both conjectures are true.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-06-04T04:10:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C50", "05C90", "15A18", "92E10" ], "keywords": [ "conjectures", "short note", "maximum degree", "absolute values", "algebra appl" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0906.0827L" } } }