A note on non-\(\mathbb{R}\)-cospectral graphs (Q521370)

Summary: Two graphs \(G\) and \(H\) are called \(\mathbb{R}\)-cospectral if \(A(G)+yJ\) and \(A(H)+yJ\) (where \(A(G)\), \(A(H)\) are the adjacency matrices of \(G\) and \(H\), respectively, \(J\) is the all-one matrix) have the same spectrum for all \(y\in\mathbb{R}\). In this note, we give a necessary condition for having \(\mathbb{R}\)-cospectral graphs. Further, we provide a sufficient condition ensuring only irrational orthogonal similarity between certain cospectral graphs. Some concrete examples are also supplied to exemplify the main results.