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On Isospectral Integral Circulant Graphs

Combinatorics 2023-10-19 v1 Number Theory Spectral Theory

Abstract

Understanding when two non-isomorphic graphs can have the same spectra is a classic problem that is still not completely understood, even for integral circulant graphs. We say that a natural number NN satisfies the \emph{integral spectral Ad\`{a}m property (ISAP)} if any two integral circulant graphs of order NN with the same spectra must be isomorphic. It seems to be open whether all NN satisfy the ISAP; M\"{o}nius and So showed that NN satisfies the ISAP if N=pk,pqk,N = p^k, pq^k, or pqrpqr. We show that: (a) for any prime factorization structure N=p1a1pkakN = p_1^{a_1}\cdots p_k^{a_k}, NN satisfies the ISAP for "most" values of the pip_i; (b) N=p2qnN=p^2q^n satisfy the ISAP if p,qp,q are odd and (q1)(p1)2(p+1)(q-1) \nmid (p-1)^2(p+1); (c) all N=p2q2N =p^2q^2 satisfy the ISAP.

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@article{arxiv.2310.11545,
  title  = {On Isospectral Integral Circulant Graphs},
  author = {Yan X Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11545},
  year   = {2023}
}
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