A Faber--Krahn inequality for trees
The well-known Faber-Krahn theorem states that the ball has the lowest first Dirichlet eigenvalue among all domains of the same volume in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Leydold (Geom. Funct. Anal, 1997) gave the discrete version of Faber-Krahn inequality for regular trees with boundary. Bıyıko{ğ}lu and Leydold (J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 2007)...