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Andrew Whelan
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Generalised Isospectrality of Graphs
After some reflection, the answer seems to be a trivial 'yes'. We know there is an upper bound on computational complexity, say $f(n)$. If we imagine such an algorithm and each step in the process as a 'yes-no' type procedure, then we simply encode this in an $(f(n) \times f(n))$ diagonal matrix with binary entries on the diagonal. I'm finding it hard to think why this would fail but it should be easy to imagine fixing it.
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Generalised Isospectrality of Graphs
Ah, wonderful! That is a nice observation and it does not totally surprise me. For my part I'm initially banking on the distance matrix representation, which is obviously a higher complexity than adjacency and Laplacian. Do you know of any results on the complexity of computing distance matrices?
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Generalised Isospectrality of Graphs
Hi Mikhail - thanks for your comment. What is a 'GI test'?
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Applications of cut locus structure theorems
Hi coudy, thanks for your answer - I'm intrigued by the potential link to harmonic analysis (+1)! However, I'm skeptical about how exhibiting two isometrically distinct tori would appeal to applied mathematicians unless I could show they are isospectral. Could you perhaps spell this out a little more or provide a link to the basic theory which could help me figure this out? It would appear to me (www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~pberard/D/isos-dea93.pdf) that the tori are isospectral only if the squared lengths of the vertices on the dual lattices are the same, but I may have misunderstood
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Applications of cut locus structure theorems
Hi Joseph, this is a really nice geometric application! However, as you say yourself, I am looking for something a little more in the area of (ostensibly) non-geometric topics such as the likes of PDE theory or analysis, of interest to a broad class of applied mathematicians. As such I might leave the question open for a little bit to see what other people may think about this.
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