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Ordered multiplicity inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs on six vertices

Combinatorics 2017-10-10 v2

Abstract

For a graph GG, we associate a family of real symmetric matrices, S(G)\mathcal{S}(G), where for any MS(G)M \in \mathcal{S}(G), the location of the nonzero off-diagonal entries of MM are governed by the adjacency structure of GG. The ordered multiplicity Inverse Eigenvalue Problem of a Graph (IEPG) is concerned with finding all attainable ordered lists of eigenvalue multiplicities for matrices in S(G)\mathcal{S}(G). For connected graphs of order six, we offer significant progress on the IEPG, as well as a complete solution to the ordered multiplicity IEPG. We also show that while Km,nK_{m,n} with min(m,n)3\min(m,n)\ge 3 attains a particular ordered multiplicity list, it cannot do so with arbitrary spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02438,
  title  = {Ordered multiplicity inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs on six vertices},
  author = {John Ahn and Christine Alar and Beth Bjorkman and Steve Butler and Joshua Carlson and Audrey Goodnight and Haley Knox and Casandra Monroe and Michael C. Wigal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02438},
  year   = {2017}
}
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