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The concept of switching has arisen in several different areas within combinatorics. The act of switching usually transforms a combinatorial object into a non-isomorphic object of the same type, in a way that some key property is preserved.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Dean Crnković , Ronan Egan , Andrea Švob

A switching method is a graph operation that results in cospectral graphs (graphs with the same spectrum). Work by Wang and Xu [Discrete Math. 310 (2010)] suggests that most cospectral graphs with cospectral complements can be constructed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Aida Abiad , Nils van de Berg , Robin Simoens

Applying a method of Godsil and McKay \cite{GM} to some graphs related to the symplectic graph, a series of new infinite families of strongly regular graphs with parameters…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Alice M. W. Hui , Bernardo Rodrigues

We introduce a switching operation, inspired by the Godsil-McKay switching, in order to obtain pairs of $G$-cospectral gain graphs, that are gain graphs cospectral with respect to every representation of the gain group $G$. For instance,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Matteo Cavaleri , Alfredo Donno , Stefano Spessato

We study the behaviour of the 2-rank of the adjacency matrix of a graph under Seidel and Godsil-McKay switching, and apply the result to graphs coming from graphical Hadamard matrices of order $4^m$. Starting with graphs from known Hadamard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Aida Abiad , Steve Butler , Willem H. Haemers

Switching is an operation on a graph that does not change the spectrum of the adjacency matrix, thus producing cospectral graphs. An important activity in the field of spectral graph theory is the characterization of graphs by their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Aida Abiad , Nils Van de Berg , Robin Simoens

We show that each (r, lambda)-design yields a class of switching methods that can be used produce cospectral graphs. We use this to explain several specific switching methods such as Godsil-McKay (GM) switching and Wang-Qiu-Hu (WQH)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Ferdinand Ihringer , Robin Simoens

We define several operations that switch substructures of Hadamard matrices thereby producing new, generally inequivalent, Hadamard matrices. These operations have application to the enumeration and classification of Hadamard matrices. To…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-01 William P. Orrick

Godsil-McKay switching is an operation on graphs that doesn't change the spectrum of the adjacency matrix. Usually (but not always) the obtained graph is non-isomorphic with the original graph. We present a straightforward sufficient…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Aida Abiad , Andries E. Brouwer , Willem H. Haemers

We propose a generic framework to describe classical Ising-like models defined on arbitrary graphs. The energy spectrum is shown to be the Hadamard transform of a suitably defined sparse "coding" vector associated with the graph. We expect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-28 Rémy Mosseri

We apply Godsil-McKay switching to the symplectic graphs over $\mathbb{F}_2$ with at least 63 vertices and prove that the 2-rank of (the adjacency matrix of) the graph increases after switching. This shows that the switched graph is a new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Aida Abiad , Willem H. Haemers

Two graphs $G$ and $H$ are \emph{cospectral} if the adjacency matrices share the same spectrum. Constructing cospectral non-isomorphic graphs has been studied extensively for many years and various constructions are known in the literature,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Lihuan Mao , Fu Yan

Construction of graphs with equal eigenvalues (co-spectral graphs) is an interesting problem in spectral graph theory. Seidel switching is a well-known method for generating co-spectral graphs. From a matrix theoretic point of view, Seidel…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Supriyo Dutta , Bibhas Adhikari , Subhashish Banerjee

It is shown that an undirected graph $G$ is cospectral with the Hermitian adjacency matrix of a mixed graph $D$ obtained from a subgraph $H$ of $G$ by orienting some of its edges if and only if $H=G$ and $D$ is obtained from $G$ by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Bojan Mohar

We consider the problem of switching off unwanted interactions in a given multi-partite Hamiltonian. This is known to be an important primitive in quantum information processing and several schemes have been presented in the literature to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Martin Roetteler , Pawel Wocjan

A mixed multigraph is obtained from an undirected multigraph by orienting a subset of its edges. In this paper, we study a new Hermitian matrix representation of mixed multigraphs, give an introduction to cospectral operations on mixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Bo-Jun Yuan , Shaowei Sun , Dijian Wang

The existence of non-isomorphic graphs which share the same Laplace spectrum (to be referred to as isospectral graphs) leads naturally to the following question: What additional information is required in order to resolve isospectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Jonas S. Juul , Christopher H. Joyner

Dual Seidel switching is a graph operation introduced by W.~Haemers in 1984. This operation can change the graph, however it does not change its bipartite double, and because of this, the operation leaves the squares of the eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Sergey Goryainov , Elena V. Konstantinova , Honghai Li , Da Zhao

Graphs can be associated with a matrix according to some rule and we can find the spectrum of a graph with respect to that matrix. Two graphs are cospectral if they have the same spectrum. Constructions of cospectral graphs help us…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Kate Lorenzen

A well--known fact in Spectral Graph Theory is the existence of pairs of isospectral nonisomorphic graphs (known as PINGS). The work of A.J. Schwenk (in 1973) and of C. Godsil and B. McKay (in 1982) shed some light on the explanation of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Francesco Belardo , Maurizio Brunetti , Matteo Cavaleri , Alfredo Donno
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