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Spectrally indistinguishable pseudorandom graphs

Combinatorics 2025-11-27 v1 Discrete Mathematics Number Theory

Abstract

We construct explicit families of graphs whose eigenvalues are asymptotically distributed according to Wigner's semicircle law; in other words, that are spectrally indistinguishable from random graphs. However, in other respects they are strikingly dissimilar from random graphs; for example, they are K2,3K_{2,3}-free graphs with almost the maximum possible edge density.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21351,
  title  = {Spectrally indistinguishable pseudorandom graphs},
  author = {Arthur Forey and Javier Fresán and Emmanuel Kowalski and Yuval Wigderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21351},
  year   = {2025}
}

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v1; 23 pages

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