Let D = (V, E) be a directed graph (or a digraph) with the vertex set V = V (D) and the arc set E = E(D) ⊆ V × V \ { (v, v) : v ∈ V } (and so D has no loops and no multiple arcs). Let D 0 be the digraph with vertex set V and with no arcs, D 1 the complete digraph with vertex set V , D + = D, and D − the complement D c of D. For e = (x, y) ∈ E let x = t(e) and y = h(e). Let T (D) (T cb (D)) be the digraph with vertex set V ∪ E such that (v, e) is an arc in T (D) (resp., in T cb (D)) if and only if v ∈ V , e ∈ E, and vertex v = t(e) (resp., v = t(e)) in D. Similarly, let H(D) (H cb (D)) be the digraph with vertex set V ∪ E such that (e, v) is an arc in H(D) (resp., in H cb (D)) if and only if v ∈ V , e ∈ E, and vertex v = h(e) (resp., v = h(e)) in D. Given a digraph D and three variables x, y, z ∈ {0, 1, +, −},and W is the complete bipartite digraph with parts V and E if z = 1. In this paper we obtain the adjacency characteristic polynomials of some xyz-transformations of an r-regular digraph D in terms of the adjacency polynomial, the number of vertices of D and r. Similar results are obtained for some non-regular digraphs, named digraph-functions. Using xyz-transformations we give various constructions of non-isomorphic cospectral digraphs. Our notion of xyz-transformation and the corresponding adjacency polynomials results are also valid for digraphs with loops and multiple arcs provided x, y, z ∈ {0, +} and z ∈ {0, 1, +, −}. We also extend the notion of xyz-transformation and the above adjacency polynomial results to digraphs (V, E) with possible loops and no multiple arcs.A general directed graph D (or a digraph with possible multiple arcs and loops) is a triple (V, E, ψ), where V and E are finite sets, V is non-empty, and ψ is a function from E to V × V (and so ψ(e) is the ordered pair of ends of arc e in E).then arc e is called a loop in D. The sets V and E are called the vertex set and the arc set of digraph D and denoted by V (D) and E(D), respectively. Let v(D) = |V (D)| and e(D) = |E(D)|.
Given two general digraphs). We say that digraph D is isomorphic to digraph F (or equivalently, D and F are isomorphic) and write D ∼ = F if there exists an isomorphism from D to F .In other words, a digraph D is a pair (V, E), where V is a non-empty set and E ⊆ V × V , and so D has no multiple arcs but may have at most one loop in each vertex. If E = V × V , then digraph D is called a complete digraph and denoted by K • .Given two digraphs D 1 = (V 1 , E 1 ) and D 2 = (V 2 , E 2 ), a bijection α : V 1 → V 2 is called an isomorphism from D 1 to D 2 if (x, y) ∈ E 1 ⇔ (α(x), α(y)) ∈ E 2 . As above, we say that digraph D is isomorphic to digraph F (or equivalently, D and F are isomorphic) and write D ∼ = F if there exists an isomorphism from D to F .Let K be the graph obtained from K • by removing all its loops, i.e. E(K) = {V × V }. We call K a simple complete digraph. Given a simple digraph D, let D c = K \ E(D). Digraph D c is called the K-complement (or simply, complement) of D.digraph and is denoted by K XY . Given a...