Cospectral graphs and regular orthogonal matrices of level 2

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Abstract: We apply Godsil-McKay switching to the symplectic graphs over mathbbF2 with at least 63 vertices and prove that the 2-rank of (the adjacency matrix of) the graph increases after switching. This shows that the switched graph is a new strongly regular graph with parameters (22u!−1,22u−1,22u−2,22u−2) and 2-rank 2u+2 when ugeq3. For the symplectic graph on 63 vertices we investigate repeated switching by computer and find many new strongly regular graphs with the above parameters for u=3 with various 2-ranks. Using these results and a recursive construction method for the symplectic graph from Hadamard matrices, we obtain several graphs with the above parameters, but different 2-ranks for every ugeq3.











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