Characterizations of the spectral radius of nonnegative weakly irreducible tensors via digraph

Abstract

For a nonnegative weakly irreducible tensor $\mathcal{A}$, we give some characterizations of the spectral radius of $\mathcal{A}$, by using the digraph of tensors. As applications, some bounds on the spectral radius of the adjacency tensor and the signless Laplacian tensor of the $k$-uniform hypergraphs are shown.