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Revista Colombiana de Matemáticas

Print version ISSN 0034-7426

Rev.colomb.mat. vol.42 no.1 Bogotá Jan./June 2008

 

Nonderogatory directed windmills

Molinos de viento dirigidos no derogatorios

JUAN RADA1

1Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. Email: juanrada@ula.ve


Abstract

A directed graph G is nonderogatory if its adjacency matrix A is nonderogatory, i.e., the characteristic polynomial of A is equal to the minimal polynomial of A. Given integers r≥ 2 and h≥ 3, a directed windmill Mh(r) is a directed graph obtained by coalescing r dicycles of length h in one vertex. In this article we solve a conjecture proposed by Gan and Koo ([3]): Mh(r) is nonderogatory if and only if r=2.

Key words: Nonderogatory matrix, characteristic polynomial of directedgraphs, directed windmills.


2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C50.

Resumen

Un grafo dirigido G es no-derogatorio si su matriz de adyacencia A es no-derogatoria, es decir el polinomio característico de A es igual al polinomio minimal de A. Dados enteros r≥ 2 y h≥ 3, el molino de viento dirigido Mh(r) es un grafo dirigido que se obtiene por medio de la coalescencia de r diciclos de longitud h en un vértice. En este artículo resolvemos una conjetura propuesta por Gan y Koo ([3]): Mh(r) es no-derogatorio si, y sólo si, r=2.

Palabras clave: matriz no-derogatoria, polinomio característico de grafos dirigidos, molinos de viento dirigidos.


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(Recibido en octubre de 2007. Aceptado en febrero de 2008)

Este artículo se puede citar en LaTeX utilizando la siguiente referencia bibliográfica de BibTeX:

@ARTICLE{RCMv42n1a05,
    AUTHOR  = {Rada, Juan},
    TITLE   = {{Nonderogatory directed windmills}},
    JOURNAL = {Revista Colombiana de Matemáticas},
    YEAR    = {2008},
    volume  = {42},
    number  = {1},
    pages   = {61-66}
}

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