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Walk Generating Functions, Christoffel-Darboux Identities and the Adjacency Matrix of a Graph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

C. D. Godsil
C. D. Godsil
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Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaN2L 3G1
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Abstract

In this work we show that that many of the basic results concerning the theory of the characteristic polynomial of a graph can be derived as easy consequences of a determinantal identity due to Jacobi. As well as improving known results, we are also able to derive a number of new ones. A combinatorial interpretation of the Christoffel-Darboux identity from the theory of orthogonal polynomials is also presented. Finally, we extend some work of Tutte on the reconstructibility of graphs with irreducible characteristic polynomials.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 13 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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