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On automorphisms of circulant digraphs on pm vertices, p an odd prime
AbstractThe circulant digraph Γ is considered when the number n of vertices of Γ is equal to pm for an odd prime p. The main results are an implicit characterization of the groups Aut(Γ) in the general case, and an explicit characterization in the case n=p4. The argument is based on spectral techniques and classical constructions of permutation groups
Hoffman polynomials of nonnegative irreducible matrices and strongly connected digraphs
AbstractFor a nonnegative n×n matrix A, we find that there is a polynomial f(x)∈R[x] such that f(A) is a positive matrix of rank one if and only if A is irreducible. Furthermore, we show that the lowest degree such polynomial f(x) with tr f(A)=n is unique. Thus, generalizing the well-known definition of the Hoffman polynomial of a strongly connected regular digraph, for any irreducible nonnegative n×n matrix A, we are led to define its Hoffman polynomial to be the polynomial f(x) of minimum degree satisfying that f(A) is positive and has rank 1 and trace n. The Hoffman polynomial of a strongly connected digraph is defined to be the Hoffman polynomial of its adjacency matrix. We collect in this paper some basic results and open problems related to the concept of Hoffman polynomials
Spectra and eigenspaces from regular partitions of Cayley (di)graphs of permutation groups
In this paper, we present a method to obtain regular (or equitable)
partitions of Cayley (di)graphs (that is, graphs, digraphs, or mixed graphs) of
permutation groups on letters. We prove that every partition of the number
gives rise to a regular partition of the Cayley graph. By using
representation theory, we also obtain the complete spectra and the eigenspaces
of the corresponding quotient (di)graphs. More precisely, we provide a method
to find all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of such (di)graphs, based on their
irreducible representations. As examples, we apply this method to the pancake
graphs and to a recent known family of mixed graphs
(having edges with and without direction). As a byproduct, the existence of
perfect codes in allows us to give a lower bound for the multiplicity of
its eigenvalue
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