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Notes on the connectivity of Cayley coset digraphs
Hamidoune's connectivity results for hierarchical Cayley digraphs are
extended to Cayley coset digraphs and thus to arbitrary vertex transitive
digraphs. It is shown that if a Cayley coset digraph can be hierarchically
decomposed in a certain way, then it is optimally vertex connected. The results
are obtained by extending the methods used by Hamidoune. They are used to show
that cycle-prefix graphs are optimally vertex connected. This implies that
cycle-prefix graphs have good fault tolerance properties.Comment: 15 page
Cospectral digraphs from locally line digraphs
A digraph \G=(V,E) is a line digraph when every pair of vertices
have either equal or disjoint in-neighborhoods. When this condition only
applies for vertices in a given subset (with at least two elements), we say
that \G is a locally line digraph. In this paper we give a new method to
obtain a digraph \G' cospectral with a given locally line digraph \G with
diameter , where the diameter of \G' is in the interval .
In particular, when the method is applied to De Bruijn or Kautz digraphs, we
obtain cospectral digraphs with the same algebraic properties that characterize
the formers
Symmetrizable integer matrices having all their eigenvalues in the interval [-2,2]
The adjacency matrices of graphs form a special subset of the set of all
integer symmetric matrices. The description of which graphs have all their
eigenvalues in the interval [-2,2] (i.e., those having spectral radius at most
2) has been known for several decades. In 2007 we extended this classification
to arbitrary integer symmetric matrices.
In this paper we turn our attention to symmetrizable matrices. We classify
the connected nonsymmetric but symmetrizable matrices which have entries in
that are maximal with respect to having all their eigenvalues in [-2,2].
This includes a spectral characterisation of the affine and finite Dynkin
diagrams that are not simply laced (much as the graph result gives a spectral
characterisation of the simply laced ones).Comment: 20 pages, 11 figure
Forest matrices around the Laplacian matrix
We study the matrices Q_k of in-forests of a weighted digraph G and their
connections with the Laplacian matrix L of G. The (i,j) entry of Q_k is the
total weight of spanning converging forests (in-forests) with k arcs such that
i belongs to a tree rooted at j. The forest matrices, Q_k, can be calculated
recursively and expressed by polynomials in the Laplacian matrix; they provide
representations for the generalized inverses, the powers, and some eigenvectors
of L. The normalized in-forest matrices are row stochastic; the normalized
matrix of maximum in-forests is the eigenprojection of the Laplacian matrix,
which provides an immediate proof of the Markov chain tree theorem. A source of
these results is the fact that matrices Q_k are the matrix coefficients in the
polynomial expansion of adj(a*I+L). Thereby they are precisely Faddeev's
matrices for -L.
Keywords: Weighted digraph; Laplacian matrix; Spanning forest; Matrix-forest
theorem; Leverrier-Faddeev method; Markov chain tree theorem; Eigenprojection;
Generalized inverse; Singular M-matrixComment: 19 pages, presented at the Edinburgh (2001) Conference on Algebraic
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