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Graphs Where Star Sets Are Matched to Their Complements

N. E. Clarke1, W. D. Garraway1, C. A. Hickman1, R. J. Nowakowski1
1 Department of Math. & Stats. Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 3J5, Canada.

Abstract

Consider those graphs \(G\) of size \(2n\) that have an eigenvalue \(\lambda\) of multiplicity \(n\) and where the edges between the star set and its complement is a matching. We show that \(\lambda\) must be either \(0\) or \(1\) and completely characterize the corresponding graphs.