Counterexamples to a Conjecture on Laplacian Ratios of Trees

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contents For a graph \(G\) with no isolated vertices, its Laplacian ratio is defined as \[ π(G)=\frac{\operatorname{per}(L(G))}{\prod_{v\in V(G)} d(v)}, \] where \(L(G)\) is the Laplacian matrix of \(G\), \(d(v)\) is the degree of \(v\), and \(\operatorname{per}\) denotes the permanent. Brualdi and Goldwasser asked for the maximum value of \(π(T)\) among trees \(T\) with a fixed number of vertices. Wu, Dong and Lai recently proposed a conjectural answer to this problem. We give infinite families of counterexamples to their conjecture.
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spellingShingle Counterexamples to a Conjecture on Laplacian Ratios of Trees
Pant, Priyanshu
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C05, 05C50, 15A15
For a graph \(G\) with no isolated vertices, its Laplacian ratio is defined as \[ π(G)=\frac{\operatorname{per}(L(G))}{\prod_{v\in V(G)} d(v)}, \] where \(L(G)\) is the Laplacian matrix of \(G\), \(d(v)\) is the degree of \(v\), and \(\operatorname{per}\) denotes the permanent. Brualdi and Goldwasser asked for the maximum value of \(π(T)\) among trees \(T\) with a fixed number of vertices. Wu, Dong and Lai recently proposed a conjectural answer to this problem. We give infinite families of counterexamples to their conjecture.
title Counterexamples to a Conjecture on Laplacian Ratios of Trees
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C05, 05C50, 15A15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14176