{ "id": "math/0702723", "version": "v3", "published": "2007-02-24T00:27:30.000Z", "updated": "2007-06-06T21:09:20.000Z", "title": "Chromatic number and spectral radius", "authors": [ "Vladimir Nikiforov" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Let G be a graph, H be its chromatic number, L be the largest eigenvalue of its Laplacian, and M be the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Then, complementing a well-known result of Hoffman, we show that L>=(H/(H-1))M", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2007-06-06T21:09:20.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C50" ], "keywords": [ "chromatic number", "spectral radius", "largest eigenvalue", "well-known result" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007math......2723N" } } }