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Title: | The H-join of arbitrary families of graphs: the universal adjacency spectrum |
Author: | Cardoso, Domingos M. Gomes, Helena Pinheiro, Sofia J. |
Keywords: | Graph operations Walk-matrix Graph eigenvalues Universal adjacency matrix |
Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2022 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Abstract: | The H-join of a family of graphs $\mathcal{G}$={G_1, \dots, G_p}, also called generalized composition, H[G_1, \dots, G_p], where all graphs are undirected, simple and finite, is the graph obtained by replacing each vertex i of H by G_i and adding to the edges of all graphs in $\mathcal{G}$ the edges of the join $G_i \vee G_j$, for every edge ij of H. Some well known graph operations are particular cases of the H-join of a family of graphs $\mathcal{G}$ as it is the case of the lexicographic product (also called composition) of two graphs H and G, H[G]. During long time the known expressions for the determination of the entire spectrum of the H-join in terms of the spectra of its components (that is, graphs in $\mathcal{G}$) and an associated matrix, related with the main eigenvalues of the components and the graph H, were limited to families $\mathcal{G}$ of regular graphs. In this work, with an approach based on the walk-matrix, we extend such a determination, as well as the determination of the characteristic polynomial, to the universal adjacency matrix of the H-join of families of arbitrary graphs. From the obtained results, the eigenvectors of the universal adjacency matrix of the H-join can also be determined in terms of the eigenvectors of the universal adjacency matrices of the components and an associated matrix. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/34100 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.laa.2022.04.015 |
ISSN: | 0024-3795 |
Publisher Version: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024379522001665?via%3Dihub |
Appears in Collections: | CIDMA - Artigos DMat - Artigos OGTCG - Artigos |
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