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Godsil-McKay switching and isomorphism

Combinatorics 2014-06-18 v1

Abstract

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 condition for being isomorphic after switching, and give examples which show that this condition is not necessary. For some graph products we obtain sufficient conditions for being non-isomorphic after switching. As an example we find that the tensor product of the ×m\ell\times m grid (>m2\ell>m\geq 2) and a graph with at least one vertex of degree two is not determined by its adjacency spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1406.4170,
  title  = {Godsil-McKay switching and isomorphism},
  author = {Aida Abiad and Andries E. Brouwer and Willem H. Haemers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4170},
  year   = {2014}
}
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