Conjugate Laplacian matrices of a graph

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a simple graph of order [Formula: see text] Let [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are two nonzero integers and [Formula: see text] is a positive integer such that [Formula: see text] is not a perfect square. In [M. Lepovi[Formula: see text], On conjugate adjacency matrices of a graph, Discrete Mathematics 307 (2007) 730–738], the author defined the matrix [Formula: see text] to be the conjugate adjacency matrix of [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] for any two adjacent vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for any two nonadjacent vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] In this paper, we define conjugate Laplacian matrix of graphs and describe various properties of its eigenvalues and eigenspaces. We also discuss the conjugate Laplacian spectra for union, join and Cartesian product of graphs.