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On the eigenvalues and Seidel eigenvalues of chain graphs

Combinatorics 2023-11-01 v1

Abstract

In this paper we consider the eigenvalues and the Seidel eigenvalues of a chain graph. An\dbar\dbareli\'{c}, da Fonseca, Simi\'{c}, and Du \cite{andelic2020tridiagonal} conjectured that there do not exist non-isomorphic cospectral chain graphs with respect to the adjacency spectrum. Here we disprove this conjecture. Furthermore, by considering the relation between the Seidel matrix and the adjacency matrix of a graph, we solve two problems on the number of distinct Seidel eigenvalues of a chain graph, which was posed by Mandal, Mehatari, and Das \cite{mandal2022spectrum}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.20230,
  title  = {On the eigenvalues and Seidel eigenvalues of chain graphs},
  author = {Zhuang Xiong and Yaoping Hou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20230},
  year   = {2023}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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