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Keywords:
tridiagonal matrix; threshold graph; chain graph; eigenvalue-free interval
tridiagonal matrix; threshold graph; chain graph; eigenvalue-free interval
Summary:
A graph is called a chain graph if it is bipartite and the neighbourhoods of the vertices in each colour class form a chain with respect to inclusion. In this paper we give an explicit formula for the characteristic polynomial of any chain graph and we show that it can be expressed using the determinant of a particular tridiagonal matrix. Then this fact is applied to show that in a certain interval a chain graph does not have any nonzero eigenvalue. A similar result is provided for threshold graphs.
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