Smith graph

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Short description: Type of graph in graph theory


In the mathematical field of graph theory, a Smith graph is either of two kinds of graph.

  • It is a graph whose adjacency matrix has largest eigenvalue at most 2,[1] or has spectral radius 2[2] or at most 2.[3] The graphs with spectral radius 2 form two infinite families and three sporadic examples; if we ask for spectral radius at most 2 then there are two additional infinite families and three more sporadic examples. The infinite families with spectral radius less than 2 are the paths and the paths with one extra edge attached to the vertex next to an endpoint; the infinite families with spectral radius exactly 2 are the cycles and the paths with an extra edge attached to each of the vertices next to an endpoint.

These are also the simply laced affine (and finite, if the spectral radius may be less than 2) Dynkin diagrams.

References

  1. John H. Smith (June 2–14, 1969). "Combinatorial Structures and Their Applications". in Richard Guy. Proceedings of the Calgary International Conference on Combinatorial Structures and Their Applications. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Gordon and Breach. pp. 403–406. https://books.google.com/books?id=rThqxwEACAAJ. 
  2. Radosavljević, Z.; Mihailović, B.; Rašajski, M. (2008). "Decomposition of Smith graphs in maximal reflexive cacti". Discrete Mathematics 308 (2–3): 355–366. doi:10.1016/j.disc.2006.11.049. 
  3. Cvetković, Dragoš (2017). "Spectral Theory of Smith Graphs". Bulletin (Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts. Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles. Sciences Mathématiques) (42): 19–40. 
  4. Cameron, P.J; MacPherson, H.D (1985). "Rank three permutation groups with rank three subconstituents". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 39: 1–16. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(85)90034-6.