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High-ordered spectral characterizations of graphs

Combinatorics 2021-11-09 v1

Abstract

The spectrum of the kk-power hypergraph of a graph GG is called the kk-ordered spectrum of GG.If graphs G1G_1 and G2G_2 have same kk-ordered spectrum for all positive integer k2k\geq2, G1G_1 and G2G_2 are said to be high-ordered cospectral. If all graphs who are high-ordered cospectral with the graph GG are isomorphic to GG, we say that GG is determined by the high-ordered spectrum.In this paper, we use the high-ordered spectrum of graphs to study graph isomorphism and show that all Smith's graphs are determined by the high-ordered spectrum.And we give infinitely many pairs of trees with same spectrum but different high-ordered spectrum by high-ordered cospectral invariants of trees,it means that we can determine that these cospectral trees are not isomorphism by the high-ordered spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2111.03877,
  title  = {High-ordered spectral characterizations of graphs},
  author = {Lixiang Chen and Lizhu Sun and Changjiang Bu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03877},
  year   = {2021}
}
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