How to Use eigenvalue in a Sentence

eigenvalue

noun

• Which, in turn, means that the smallest eigenvalue had to be low.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
• The smallest eigenvalue therefore tells you how low the cosine sum can get.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
• For example, the largest eigenvalue counts the number of edges in the graph; the second-largest measures the graph’s connectivity.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
• Remember that proving Chowla’s conjecture means showing that the graph’s smallest eigenvalue gets very low.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
• That would imply that the graphs each had a very low eigenvalue, finally enabling them to exploit the link between Chowla’s conjecture and graph theory.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
• To do this, the researchers investigated important quantities called eigenvalues.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
• Jin, Milojević, Tomon, and Zhang focused on the negative eigenvalues, building on a recent line of research that had linked them to a graph’s MaxCut.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026