Constructably Laplacian integral graphs
โ Scribed by Steve Kirkland
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 423
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0024-3795
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โฆ Synopsis
A graph is Laplacian integral if the spectrum of its Laplacian matrix consists entirely of integers. We consider the class of constructably Laplacian integral graphs -those graphs that be constructed from an empty graph by adding a sequence of edges in such a way that each time a new edge is added, the resulting graph is Laplacian integral. We characterize the constructably Laplacian integral graphs in terms of certain forbidden vertex-induced subgraphs, and consider the number of nonisomorphic Laplacian integral graphs that can be constructed by adding a suitable edge to a constructably Laplacian integral graph. We also discuss the eigenvalues of constructably Laplacian integral graphs, and identify families of isospectral nonisomorphic graphs within the class.
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