Oriented hypergraphs and generalizing the Harary-Sachs theorem to integer matrices

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Main Authors: Dvarishkis, Blake, Reynes, Josephine, Rusnak, Lucas J.
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Published: 2025
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author Dvarishkis, Blake
Reynes, Josephine
Rusnak, Lucas J.
author_facet Dvarishkis, Blake
Reynes, Josephine
Rusnak, Lucas J.
contents Incidence-based generalizations of cycle covers, called contributors, extend the Harary-Sachs coefficient theorem for characteristic polynomials of the adjacency matrix of graphs. All minors of the Laplacian resulting from an integer matrix are characterized using their associated oriented hypergraph through a new minimal collection of contributors to produce the coefficients of the total-minor polynomial. We prove that the natural grouping of contributors via tail-equivalence is necessarily cancellative for any contributor family that reuses an edge. We then provide a new combinatorial proof on the non-0 isospectrality of the traditional characteristic polynomials of the Laplacian and its dual.
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spellingShingle Oriented hypergraphs and generalizing the Harary-Sachs theorem to integer matrices
Dvarishkis, Blake
Reynes, Josephine
Rusnak, Lucas J.
Combinatorics
05C50 (Primary) 05C65, 05C22, 05B20, 15A15 (Secondary)
Incidence-based generalizations of cycle covers, called contributors, extend the Harary-Sachs coefficient theorem for characteristic polynomials of the adjacency matrix of graphs. All minors of the Laplacian resulting from an integer matrix are characterized using their associated oriented hypergraph through a new minimal collection of contributors to produce the coefficients of the total-minor polynomial. We prove that the natural grouping of contributors via tail-equivalence is necessarily cancellative for any contributor family that reuses an edge. We then provide a new combinatorial proof on the non-0 isospectrality of the traditional characteristic polynomials of the Laplacian and its dual.
title Oriented hypergraphs and generalizing the Harary-Sachs theorem to integer matrices
topic Combinatorics
05C50 (Primary) 05C65, 05C22, 05B20, 15A15 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12271