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Isospectral Graph Reductions

Combinatorics 2009-11-12 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let G be an arbitrary finite weighted digraph with weights in the set of complex rational functions. A general procedure is proposed which allows for the reduction of G to a smaller graph with a less complicated structure having the same spectrum as of G (up to some set known in advance). The proposed procedure has a lot of flexibility and could be used e.g. for design of networks with prescribed spectral and dynamical properties.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0909.0053,
  title  = {Isospectral Graph Reductions},
  author = {Leonid Bunimovich and Benjamin Webb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages with 8 figures. Revised version has a main result (theorem 7.2) more clearly stated

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