Line graphs of complex unit gain graphs with least eigenvalue -2

Let $\mathbb T$ be the multiplicative group of complex units, and let $\mathcal L (\Phi)$ denote a line graph of a $\mathbb{T}$-gain graph $\Phi$. Similarly to what happens in the context of signed graphs, the real number $\min Spec(A(\mathcal L (\Phi))$, that is, the smallest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $\mathcal L(\Phi)$, is not less than $-2$. The structural conditions on $\Phi$ ensuring that $\min Spec(A(\mathcal L (\Phi))=-2$ are identified. When such conditions are fulfilled, bases of the $-2$-eigenspace are constructed with the aid of the star complement technique.

GRAPHS DETERMINED BY THEIR -GAIN SPECTRA

An undirected graph $G$ is determined by its $T$ -gain spectrum (DTS) if every $T$ -gain graph cospectral to $G$ is switching equivalent to $G$ . We show that the complete graph $K_{n}$ and the graph $K_{n}-e$ obtained by deleting an edge from $K_{n}$ are DTS, the star $K_{1,n}$ is DTS if and only if $n\leq 2$ , and an odd path $P_{2m+1}$ is not DTS if $m\geq 2$ . We give an operation for constructing cospectral $T$ -gain graphs and apply it to show that a tree of arbitrary order (at least $5$ ) is not DTS.