The diameter and Laplacian eigenvalues of directed graphs
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 13 (2006)
For undirected graphs it has been known for some time that one can bound the diameter using the eigenvalues. In this note we give a similar result for the diameter of strongly connected directed graphs $G$, namely $$ D(G) \leq \bigg \lfloor {2\min_x \log (1/\phi(x))\over \log{2\over 2-\lambda}} \bigg\rfloor +1 $$ where $\lambda$ is the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian and $\phi$ is the Perron vector of the transition probability matrix of a random walk on $G$.
@article{10_37236_1142,
author = {Fan Chung},
title = {The diameter and {Laplacian} eigenvalues of directed graphs},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2006},
volume = {13},
doi = {10.37236/1142},
zbl = {1084.05031},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/1142/}
}
Fan Chung. The diameter and Laplacian eigenvalues of directed graphs. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 13 (2006). doi: 10.37236/1142
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