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Among the possible multiplicity lists for the eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices whose graph is a tree we focus upon M2, the maximum value of the sum of the two largest multiplicities. The corresponding M1 is already understood. The notion of assignment (of eigenvalues to subtrees) is formalized and applied. Using these ideas, simple upper and lower bounds are given for M2 (in terms of simple graph...