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Tight Bounds On The Algebraic Connectivity Of A Balanced Binary Tree, Jason J. Molitierno, Michael Neumann, Bryan L. Shader
Tight Bounds On The Algebraic Connectivity Of A Balanced Binary Tree, Jason J. Molitierno, Michael Neumann, Bryan L. Shader
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In this paper, quite tight lower and upper bounds are obtained on the algebraic connectivity, namely, the second-smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix, of an unweighted balanced binary tree with k levels and hence n = 2k - 1 vertices. This is accomplished by considering the inverse of a matrix of order k - 1 readily obtained from the Laplacian matrix. It is shown that the algebraic connectivity is 1/(2k - 2k + 3) + 0(1/22k).