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Ilya Nikokoshev
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Number theoretic spectral properties of random graphs

If G is a graph then its adjacency matrix has a distinguished Peron-Frobenius eigenvalue x. Consider the field Q(x). I'd like a result that says that if G is a "random graph" then the Galois group of Q(x) is "large" with high probability. (Well, what I really want is just that the Galois group is non-abelian, but I'm guessing that for a typical graph it will be the full symmetric group.)

Here's another version of this question. Take a graph with a marked point and start adding a really long tail coming into that point. This gives a sequence of graphs G_n. If G is sufficiently complicated (i.e. you're not building the A or D type Dynkin diagrams as the G_n) is Gal(Q(x_n)/Q) symmetric for large enough n?

The reason behind these questions is that fusion graphs of fusion categories always have cyclotomic Peron-Frobenius eigenvalue. So results along these lines would say things like "random graphs aren't fusion graphs" or "fusion graphs don't come in infinite families." So the particular details of these questions aren't what's important, really any results on the number theory of the Peron-Frobenius eigenvalue of graphs would be of interest.

Noah Snyder
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