On quotient digraphs and voltage digraphs

We study the relationship between two key concepts in the theory of digraphs, those of quotient digraphs and voltage digraphs. These techniques contract or expand a given digraph in order to study its characteristics, or to obtain more involved structures. As an application, we relate the spectrum o...

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Autores: Dalfó, Cristina, Fiol Mora, Miguel Ángel, Miller, Mirka, Ryan, Joe
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/72563
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/72563
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Theory of digraphs
Voltage digraphs
Quotient digraphs
Descrição
Resumo:We study the relationship between two key concepts in the theory of digraphs, those of quotient digraphs and voltage digraphs. These techniques contract or expand a given digraph in order to study its characteristics, or to obtain more involved structures. As an application, we relate the spectrum of a digraph Γ, called a voltage digraph or base, with the spectrum of its lifted digraph Γα . We prove that all the eigenvalues of Γ (including multiplicities) are, in addition, eigenvalues of Γα . This study is carried out by introducing several reduced matrix representations of Γ α . As an example of our techniques, we study some basic properties of the Alegre digraph and its base.