Connected graphs cospectral with a Friendship graph
Abstract
Let be any positive integer, the friendship graph consist of edge-disjoint triangles that all of them meeting in one vertex. A graph is called cospectral with a graph if their adjacency matrices have the same eigenvalues. Recently in [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6529v1.pdf] it is proved that if is any graph cospectral with , then . In this note, we give a proof of special case of the latter: Any connected graph cospectral with is isomorphic to . Our proof is independent of ones given in [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6529v1.pdf] and the proofs are based on our recent results given in [Trans. Com., 2 no. 4 (2013) 37-52.] Using an upper bound for the largest eigenvalue of a connected graph given in [J. Combinatorial Theory, Ser. B, 81 (2001) 177-183.].
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.2315,
title = {Connected graphs cospectral with a Friendship graph},
author = {Alireza Abdollahi and Shahrooz Janbaz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2315},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures