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Spectrum of orthogonality graph (2)

The orthogonality graph, $\Omega(n)$, has vertex set the set of $\pm 1$ vectors of length $n$, with orthogonal vectors being adjacent. I am only interested when $4|n$, since otherwise $\Omega(n)$ is ...
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Graph embeddings in the projective plane: for the 35 forbidden minors, do we know their Colin de Verdière numbers?

The Graph Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour asserts that any minor-closed graph property is determined by a finite set of forbidden graph minors. It is a broad generalization e.g. of the ...
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Where does $2\sqrt{d-1}$ come from in Ramanujan graphs?

Ramanujan graphs are the best spectral expanders: $\lambda_2 \le 2\sqrt{d-1}$. I'm looking for some intuition for this value $2\sqrt{d-1}$. Friedman showed that every random $d$-regular graph ...
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Roots of matching polynomial of graph

At the end of this preprint, I make the following conjecture concerning the roots of the matching polynomial: If a graph $G$ is connected and contains a cycle, then the spectral radius of $G$ ...
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Co-spectral fractional isomorphic graphs with different Laplacian spectrum

I am looking for two undirected graphs $G$ and $H$ of the same order (i.e., they have the same number of vertices) such that $G$ and $H$ are cospectral (i.e., their adjacency matrices $A_G$ and $A_H$ ...
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Number of trees with the same matching number

Let $\sigma(n,m)$ be the number of trees with $n$ vertices $\{ v_1, \dots, v_n \}$ such that the matching number (the size of a maximum matching) is $m$. I have been trying to compute the value of $\...
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(Connected) Cayley graphs of PSL(2,q) from (2,3,n)-triples

Let $G = PSL(2,q)$. I'm interested in the Cayley graphs of $G$ generated by triples $(A,BAB^{-1},B^{-1}AB)$, where $A, B \in G$ are elements of order $2, 3$ respectively: such a triple generates all ...
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"Nice" eigenvectors for (square of) adjacency matrix of a bipartite graph?

Let $G$ be a bipartite graph, and let $A$ be its adjacency matrix. I was wondering in this case whether $A^2$ will have nice eigenvectors that reflect combinatorial structure of the graph. I'd be ...
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spectrum of orthogonality graphs

The orthogonality graph $\Omega(n)$ with $2^n$ vertices is the graph with vertex set $\{-1,+1\}^n$, with two vertices being adjacent if and only if they are orthogonal (as vectors in the standard ...
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Does the zeta regularized Laplacian determinant measure the volume of some parameter space? How many "spanning trees" on a manifold?

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, with Laplacian $\Delta$. If $\lambda_i$ are the nonzero eigenvalues of $\Delta$, we can define the zeta function $\zeta(s) = \Sigma \lambda_i^{-s}$. By analytic ...
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Antipodal vertices in spectral graph embeddings

Suppose your are given an antipodal graph $G=(V,E)$, that is, for every vertex $v\in V$ there is a unique maximally distant vertex $v'\in V$. Under which condistions does the following hold: If $\...
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Lp norm estimates for the inverse of the Laplacian on a graph

I am looking at a finite connected graph and I would like to know what is the best [i.e. largest] constant $\lambda_p$ in $$ \sum_x f(x) =0 \implies \| \Delta^{-1} f\|_{\ell^p} \leq \lambda_p^{-1} \|...
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