Degree matrix
In the mathematical field of algebraic graph theory, the degree matrix of an undirected graph is a diagonal matrix which contains information about the degree of each vertex—that is, the number of edges attached to each vertex.[1] It is used together with the adjacency matrix to construct the Laplacian matrix of a graph: the Laplacian matrix is the difference of the degree matrix and the adjacency matrix.[2]
Definition[]
Given a graph with , the degree matrix for is a diagonal matrix defined as[1]
where the degree of a vertex counts the number of times an edge terminates at that vertex. In an undirected graph, this means that each loop increases the degree of a vertex by two. In a directed graph, the term degree may refer either to indegree (the number of incoming edges at each vertex) or outdegree (the number of outgoing edges at each vertex).
Example[]
The following undirected graph has a 6x6 degree matrix with values:
Vertex labeled graph | Degree matrix |
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Note that in the case of undirected graphs, an edge that starts and ends in the same node increases the corresponding degree value by 2 (i.e. it is counted twice).
Properties[]
The degree matrix of a k-regular graph has a constant diagonal of .
According to the degree sum formula, the trace of the degree matrix is twice the number of edges of the considered graph.
References[]
- ^ a b Chung, Fan; Lu, Linyuan; Vu, Van (2003), "Spectra of random graphs with given expected degrees", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100 (11): 6313–6318, Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.6313C, doi:10.1073/pnas.0937490100, MR 1982145, PMC 164443, PMID 12743375.
- ^ Mohar, Bojan (2004), "Graph Laplacians", in Beineke, Lowell W.; Wilson, Robin J. (eds.), Topics in algebraic graph theory, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 102, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 113–136, ISBN 0-521-80197-4, MR 2125091.
- Algebraic graph theory
- Matrices