Matching number, Hamiltonian graphs and discrete magnetic Laplacians

In this article, we relate the spectrum of the discrete magnetic Laplacian (DML) on a finite simple graph with two structural properties of the graph: the existence of a perfect matching and the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle of the underlying graph. In particular, we give a family of spectral obs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fabila-Carrasco, J. S., Lledó, Fernando, Post, Olaf
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2020
Subjects:
DML
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2010.08828
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08828
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Summary:In this article, we relate the spectrum of the discrete magnetic Laplacian (DML) on a finite simple graph with two structural properties of the graph: the existence of a perfect matching and the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle of the underlying graph. In particular, we give a family of spectral obstructions parametrised by the magnetic potential for the graph to be matchable (i.e., having a perfect matching) or for the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle. We base our analysis on a special case of the spectral preorder introduced in [FCLP20a] and we use the magnetic potential as a spectral control parameter. : 9 pages, 4 figures