2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2016.06.018
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On the spectral characterization of pineapple graphs

Abstract: The pineapple graph K q p is obtained by appending q pendant edges to a vertex of a complete graph K p (q ≥ 1, p ≥ 3). Zhang and Zhang (2009) [7] claim that the pineapple graphs are determined by their adjacency spectrum. We show that their claim is false by constructing graphs which are cospectral and non-isomorphic with K q p for every p ≥ 4 and various values of q. In addition we prove that the claim is true if q = 2, and refer to the literature for q = 1, p = 3, and (p, q) = (4, 3).

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“…Notice that this proposition does not give any graph which is cospectral and nonisomorphic with a mixed extension of P 3 , because in all three cases the second graph has more vertices than the first one. For the pineapple graph K q p , which is a mixed extension of P 3 of type (p − 1, 1, −q), we find (see [7]).…”
Section: Spectral Characterizationsmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Notice that this proposition does not give any graph which is cospectral and nonisomorphic with a mixed extension of P 3 , because in all three cases the second graph has more vertices than the first one. For the pineapple graph K q p , which is a mixed extension of P 3 of type (p − 1, 1, −q), we find (see [7]).…”
Section: Spectral Characterizationsmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…and The pineapple graph K q p is obtained by appending q pendant edges to a vertex of a complete graph K p ( q ≥ 1, p ≥ 3) [14,15]. From (3.4) and Figure 2, we can see easily that JB n could also be obtained from a pineapple graph K n n+1 by adding loop to the all of vertices of its maximum clique K n+1 .…”
Section: Proofmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Up to now, very few classes of graphs with very special structures have been proved to be DS. Usually it is case that the graphs shown to be DS have very few edges, such as the T-shape trees [5], the ∞-graphs [6], the lollipop graphs [7], the θ-graphs [8], the graphs with index at most 2 + √ 5 [9], and the pineapple graphs [10], to just name a few. For dense graphs, it is usually quite difficult to show them to be DS, for example, the complement of the path Pn was shown to be DS in [4], but the proof is much more involved than the proof that the path P n is DS.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%