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Prikl. Diskr. Mat., 2018 Number 40, Pages 87–99 (Mi pdm627)

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Applied Graph Theory

Study of graph isomorphism using Jordan forms of adjacency matrices

M. I. Volodichevaa, S. N. Leorab

a State Marine Technical University of St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
b Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Abstract: It is proposed to use a Jordan form of adjacency matrices to establish the absence of isomorphism between direct graphs. The problem of reduction of a matrix to a Jordan form has polynomial time complexity. The upper estimate of the required number of operations for $n$-vertex graph is $\mathrm O(n^4)$. It is shown that the Jordan form of the adjacency matrix contains more information about the structure of the graph than its spectrum determinated by the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix and their multiplicity. As a result of research on specific examples it was found that the isospectral matrices of the same set of eigenvalues may have different Jordan forms. This means that the adjacency matrices are not similar and therefore are not permutation similar, indicating a lack of isomorphism between direct graphs.

Keywords: graph, directed graph, graph isomorphism, adjacency matrix, similarity matrices, Jordan form of matrix.

UDC: 519.6

DOI: 10.17223/20710410/40/7



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