Integral complete multipartite graphs Ka1 {dot operator} p1, a2 {dot operator} p2, ..., as {dot operator} ps with s = 5, 6

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Abstract

A graph is called integral if all the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix are integers. In our recent work, we have studied integral complete r-partite graphs Kp1, p2, ..., pr = Ka1 {dot operator} p1, a2 {dot operator} p2, ..., as {dot operator} ps with s = 3, 4 (also see, L.G. Wang, X.D. Liu, Integral complete multipartite graphs, Discrete Math. 308 (2008) 3860-3870 ). In this paper, we continue the work on such integral graphs, we investigate integral complete multipartite graphs Ka1 {dot operator} p1, a2 {dot operator} p2, ..., as {dot operator} ps with s = 5, 6 for the first time by computer search. Then we construct infinite many new classes of such integral graphs by solving some certain Diophantine equations. These results are different from those in the existing literature. For s = 5, 6, we give a positive answer to a question of Wang et al. [L.G. Wang, X.L. Li, C. Hoede, Integral complete r-partite graphs, Discrete Math. 283 (2004) 231-241]. The problem of the existence of integral complete multipartite graphs Ka1 {dot operator} p1, a2 {dot operator} p2, ..., as {dot operator} ps with arbitrarily large number s remains open.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)812-818
Number of pages7
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume310
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Feb 2010

Keywords

  • Complete multipartite graph
  • Diophantine equation
  • Graph spectrum
  • Integral graph

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