GRAPH TRANSFORMATION AND DISTANCE SPECTRAL RADIUS

Trees are very common in the theory and applications of combinatorics. In this paper, we consider graphs whose underlying structure is a tree and study the behavior of the distance spectral radius under a graph transformation. As an application, we find the corona tree that maximizes the distance spectral radius among all corona trees with a fixed maximum degree. We also find the graph with minimal (maximal) distance spectral radius among all corona trees. Finally, we determine the graph with minimal distance spectral radius in a special class of corona trees.