Alain Valette
Institut de Mathématiques Université de Neuchâtel, Unimail 11 Rue Emile Argand CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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Spectra of graphs and the spectral criterion for property (T) Alain Valette
Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications (EJGTA) Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications
Publisher : GTA Research Group, Univ. Newcastle, Indonesian Combinatorics Society and ITB

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5614/ejgta.2017.5.1.11

Abstract

For a finite connected graph $X$, we consider the graph $RX$ obtained from $X$ by associating a new vertex to every edge of $X$ and joining by edges the extremities of each edge of $X$ to the corresponding new vertex. We express the spectrum of the Laplace operator on $RX$ as a function of the corresponding spectrum on $X$. As a corollary, we show that $X$ is a complete graph if and only if $\lambda_1(RX)>\frac{1}{2}$. We give a re-interpretation of the correspondence $X\mapsto RX$ in terms of the right-angled Coxeter group defined by $X$.