Distance and distance signless Laplacian spread of connected graphs

Abstract

For a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, recall that the distance signless Laplacian matrix of $G$ is defined to be $\mathcal{Q}(G)=Tr(G)+\mathcal{D}(G)$, where $\mathcal{D}(G)$ is the distance matrix, $Tr(G)=diag(D_1, D_2, \ldots, D_n)$ and $D_{i}$ is the row sum of $\mathcal{D}(G)$ corresponding to vertex $v_{i}$. Denote by $\rho^{\mathcal{D}}(G),$ $\rho_{min}^{\mathcal{D}}(G)$ the largest eigenvalue and the least eigenvalue of $\mathcal{D}(G)$, respectively. And denote by $q^{\mathcal{D}}(G)$, $q_{min}^{\mathcal{D}}(G)$ the largest eigenvalue and the least eigenvalue of $\mathcal{Q}(G)$, respectively. The distance spread of a graph $G$ is defined as $S_{\mathcal{D}}(G)=\rho^{\mathcal{D}}(G)- \rho_{min}^{\mathcal{D}}(G)$, and the distance signless Laplacian spread of a graph $G$ is defined as $S_{\mathcal{Q}}(G)=q^{\mathcal{D}}(G)-q_{min}^{\mathcal{D}}(G)$. In this paper, we point out an error in the result of Theorem 2.4 in "Distance spectral spread of a graph" [G.L. Yu, et al, Discrete Applied Mathematics. 160 (2012) 2474--2478] and rectify it. As well, we obtain some lower bounds on ddistance signless Laplacian spread of a graph.