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Minimal Euclidean representations of graphs

Combinatorics 2009-05-30 v3

Abstract

A simple graph G is said to be representable in a real vector space of dimension m if there is an embedding of the vertex set in the vector space such that the Euclidean distance between any two distinct vertices is one of only two distinct values a or b, with distance a if the vertices are adjacent and distance b otherwise. The Euclidean representation number of G is the smallest dimension in which G is representable. In this note, we bound the Euclidean representation number of a graph using multiplicities of the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix. We also give an exact formula for the Euclidean representation number using the main angles of the graph.

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@article{arxiv.0812.3707,
  title  = {Minimal Euclidean representations of graphs},
  author = {Aidan Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3707},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, one figure; errors corrected from previous version

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