The spectra of lifted digraphs

We present a method to derive the complete spectrum of the lift Γα of a base digraph Γ , with voltage assignment α on a (finite) group G. The method is based on assigning to Γ a quotient-like matrix whose entries are elements of the group algebra C[G] , which fully represents Γα . This allows us to...

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Authors: Dalfó, Cristina, Fiol Mora, Miguel Ángel, Sirán, Jozef
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repository:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/67512
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-018-0862-y
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67512
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Digraph
Adjacency matrix
Regular partition
Quotient digraph
Spectrum
Lifted digraph
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Summary:We present a method to derive the complete spectrum of the lift Γα of a base digraph Γ , with voltage assignment α on a (finite) group G. The method is based on assigning to Γ a quotient-like matrix whose entries are elements of the group algebra C[G] , which fully represents Γα . This allows us to derive the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the lift in terms of those of the base digraph and the irreducible characters of G. Thus, our main theorem generalizes some previous results of Lovász and Babai concerning the spectra of Cayley digraphs.