Some Relations between Rank, Chromatic Number and Energy of Graphs

Akbari, S.; Ghorbani, E.; Zare, S.

Some Relations between Rank, Chromatic Number and Energy of Graphs

Authors

Akbari, S.

Ghorbani, E.

Zare, S.

Description

The energy of a graph $G$, denoted by $E(G)$, is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all eigenvalues of $G$. Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and ${\rm rank}(G)$ be the rank of the adjacency matrix of $G$. In this paper we characterize all graphs with $E(G)={\rm rank}(G)$. Among other results we show that apart from a few families of graphs, $E(G)\geq 2\max(χ(G), n-χ(\bar{G}))$, where $n$ is the number of vertices of $G$, $\bar{G}$ and $χ(G)$ are the complement and the chromatic number of $G$, respectively. Moreover some new lower bounds for $E(G)$ in terms of ${\rm rank}(G)$ are given.
Accepted for publication in Discrete Mathematics