Spectral symmetry in conference matrices

DOI10.1007/S10623-021-00858-8zbMATH Open1496.05014arXiv2004.05829OpenAlexW3138849309MaRDI QIDQ2168068FDOQ2168068

Authors: Willem H. Haemers, Leila Parsaei Majd 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

Published in: Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A conference matrix of order $n$ is an $nimesn$ matrix $C$ with diagonal entries $0$ and off-diagonal entries $pm1$ satisfying $C{C}^{o}p=(n-1)I$. If $C$ is symmetric, then $C$ has a symmetric spectrum $Sigma$ (that is, $Sigma=-Sigma$) and eigenvalues $pmsqrtn-1$. We show that many principal submatrices of $C$ also have symmetric spectrum, which leads to examples of Seidel matrices of graphs (or, equivalently, adjacency matrices of complete signed graphs) with a symmetric spectrum. In addition, we show that some Seidel matrices with symmetric spectrum can be characterized by this construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05829

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zbMATH Keywords

signed graphPaley graphsymmetric spectrumSeidel matrixconference matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Matrices of integers (15B36) Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Signed and weighted graphs (05C22)

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