Abstract Let G be a graph on n vertices. The Laplacian matrix of G, denoted by L(G), is defined as L(G) = D(G) −A(G), where A(G) is the adjacency matrix of G and D(G) is the diagonal matrix of the vertex degrees of G. A graph G is said to be L-integral if all eigenvalues of the matrix L(G) are integers. In this paper, we characterize all Lintegral non-bipartite graphs among all connected graphs with at most two vertices of degree larger than or equal to three.

A graph is regular if every vertex is of the same degree. Otherwise, it is an irregular graph. Although there is a vast literature devoted to regular graphs, only a few papers approach the irregular ones. We have found four distinct graph invariants used to measure the irregularity of a graph. All of them are determined through either the average or the variance of the vertex degrees. Among them there is the index of the graph, a spectral parameter, which is given as a function of the maximum eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we survey these invariants with highlight to their respective properties, especially those relative to extremal graphs. Finally, we determine the maximum values of those measures and characterize their extremal graphs in some special classes.