Note on the skew energy of oriented graphs

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1 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611731, PR China

2 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611731, P.R. China

Abstract

The skew energy of oriented graphs is defined as the‎ ‎sum of the norms of all the eigenvalues of the skew  adjacency matrix‎. ‎In this note‎, ‎we obtain some upper bounds for the skew energy of any oriented graphs‎, ‎which improve the known upper‎ ‎bound obtained by Adiga et al‎.

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  • Receive Date: 04 August 2014
  • Revise Date: 23 August 2014
  • Accept Date: 23 August 2014
  • Published Online: 01 March 2015

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