On the energy of some special classes of graphs

• Main Authors: Angala, Bianca Marie P., Laforteza, Eryn Grace M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Graph theory; Mathematics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/5332
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study is an exposition of the article called Energy of a Graph is never the square root of an Odd Integer by S. Pirzada and I. Gutman. The energy E(G) of a graph G is the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of G. In this thesis, the theorem initially proved by Bapat and Pati (Bull. Ke...