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The inverse nullity pair problem and the strong nullity interlacing property

Combinatorics 2023-10-24 v1

Abstract

The inverse eigenvalue problem studies the possible spectra among matrices whose off-diagonal entries have their zero-nonzero patterns described by the adjacency of a graph GG. In this paper, we refer to the ii-nullity pair of a matrix AA as (null(A),null(A(i))(\operatorname{null}(A), \operatorname{null}(A(i)), where A(i)A(i) is the matrix obtained from AA by removing the ii-th row and column. The inverse ii-nullity pair problem is considered for complete graphs, cycles, and trees. The strong nullity interlacing property is introduced, and the corresponding supergraph lemma and decontraction lemma are developed as new tools for constructing matrices with a given nullity pair.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13884,
  title  = {The inverse nullity pair problem and the strong nullity interlacing property},
  author = {Aida Abiad and Bryan A. Curtis and Mary Flagg and H. Tracy Hall and Jephian C. -H. Lin and Bryan Shader},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13884},
  year   = {2023}
}
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