Algebraic Graph Theory Seminar - Steve Butler

Monday, January 31, 2022 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Title: Hadamard diagonalizable graphs of small order

Speaker: Steve Butler
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Zoom: Contact Sabrina Lato

Abstract:

A graph whose Laplacian matrix has a full set of eigenvectors with entries in {1,-1} is said to be Hadamard diagonalizable (i.e. there exists a Hadamard matrix which diagonalizes the Laplacian matrix). We demonstrate that the only diagonalizable graphs on n=8k+4 vertices are K_n and K_{n/2,n/2}. We also give an exponential time algorithm that takes as input a Hadamard matrix and finds all graphs which are diagonalized by that matrix. Using this all graphs through order 36 which are Hadamard diagonalizable have been found.
This is joint work with Jane Breen, Steve Butler, Melissa Fuentes, Bernard Lidický, Michael Phillips, Alexander W. N. Riasanovksy, Sung-Yell Song, Ralihe R. Villagrán, Cedar Wiseman, Xiaohong Zhang.