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Note

This documents the development version of NetworkX. Documentation for the current release can be found here.

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Eigenvalues

Create an G{n,m} random graph and compute the eigenvalues.

Out:

Largest eigenvalue: 1.5978736983679735
Smallest eigenvalue: 5.126361934016811e-16

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import networkx as nx
import numpy.linalg

n = 1000  # 1000 nodes
m = 5000  # 5000 edges
G = nx.gnm_random_graph(n, m)

L = nx.normalized_laplacian_matrix(G)
e = numpy.linalg.eigvals(L.A)
print("Largest eigenvalue:", max(e))
print("Smallest eigenvalue:", min(e))
plt.hist(e, bins=100)  # histogram with 100 bins
plt.xlim(0, 2)  # eigenvalues between 0 and 2
plt.show()