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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 32(3) (2012)
507-516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1615
On Composition of Signed Graphs
| K. Shahul Hameed
Department of Mathematics | K.A. Germina
Research Center and PG Department of Mathematics, |
Abstract
A graph whose edges are labeled either as positive or negative is called a signed graph. In this article, we extend the notion of composition of (unsigned) graphs (also called lexicographic product) to signed graphs. We employ Kronecker product of matrices to express the adjacency matrix of this product of two signed graphs and hence find its eigenvalues when the second graph under composition is net-regular. A signed graph is said to be net-regular if every vertex has constant net-degree, namely, the difference of the number of positive and negative edges incident with a vertex. We also characterize balance in signed graph composition and have some results on the Laplacian matrices of this product.
Keywords: signed graph, eigenvalues, graph composition, regular graphs, net-regular signed graphs
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C22, 05C50, 05C76.
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Received 7 March 2011
Revised 11 September 2011
Accepted 11 September 2011
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