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Two families of trees determined by  their Laplacian spectrum

ZHANG Tao1,2,*    BAI Yanqin1   

  1. 1. Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China; 2. PAP Institute of Politics, Shanghai 201602, China
  • Received:2016-07-08 Online:2017-03-15 Published:2017-03-15

Abstract:

Let G be a simple connected graph. A graph G is called to be determined by its Laplacian spectrum if any graph having the same Laplacian spectrum as G is isomorphic to G. In this paper, tree Y_n and tree F(2,n,1) which have special structures are defined. It is proved that these two families of trees are determined by their Laplacian spectrum, considering the properties of the line graphs of  the cospectral graphs.

Key words: spectrum of a graph, cospectral graphs, eigenvalue, Laplacian spectrum