The characteristic polynomials of modified graphs (Q1917341)

The paper is a survey on the relation between the characteristic polynomial of a graph and its modifications. It updates earlier papers by the same author on a similar subject, see the author [Graph perturbations, Surveys in combinatorics, Proc. 13th Br. Comb. Conf., Guildford/UK 1991, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 166, 187-219 (1991; Zbl 0738.05058)] and the author [Eutactic stars and graph spectra, IMA Vol. Math. Appl. 50, 153-164 (1993; Zbl 0789.05066)].