Assortative and disassortative mixing investigated using the spectra of graphs

We investigate the impact of degree-degree correlations on the spectra of networks. Even though density distributions exhibit drastic changes depending on the (dis)assortative mixing and the network architecture, the short range correlations in eigenvalues exhibit universal RMT predictions. The long range correlations turn out to be a measure of randomness in (dis)assortative networks. The analysis further provides insight in to the origin of high degeneracy at the zero eigenvalue displayed by majority of the biological networks.