Ebrahimi–Mohar–Nikiforov–Ahmady conjecture on the spectral sum of graphs
Let be any graph of order , and let and denote its two largest adjacency eigenvalues. Ebrahimi–Mohar–Nikiforov–Ahmady conjecture. The spectral sum satisfies
The conjecture extends the extremal spectral-sum question from trees to arbitrary graphs. The supplied context states that analogous questions for graphs remain open and gives no resolution of this bound.
References
Primary source
Hitesh Kumar, Bojan Mohar, Shivaramakrishna Pragada and Hanmeng Zhan, “Convex combination of first and second eigenvalues of trees”, arXiv:2601.10036 (2026).
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