Structured eigenbases and pair state transfer on threshold graphs

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Main Authors: de Lima, Leonardo, Del-Vecchio, Renata, Monterde, Hermie, Teixeira, Heber
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Published: 2026
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author de Lima, Leonardo
Del-Vecchio, Renata
Monterde, Hermie
Teixeira, Heber
author_facet de Lima, Leonardo
Del-Vecchio, Renata
Monterde, Hermie
Teixeira, Heber
contents Recently, Macharete, Del-Vecchio, Teixeira and de Lima showed that a star and any threshold graph on the same number of vertices share the same eigenbasis relative to the Laplacian matrix. We use this fact to establish two main results in this paper. The first one is a characterization of threshold graphs that are \textit{simply structured}, i.e., their associated Laplacian matrices have eigenbases consisting of vectors with entries from the set $\{-1,0,1\}$. Then, we provide sufficient conditions such that a simply structured threshold graph is weakly Hadamard diagonalizable (WHD). This allows us to list all connected simply structured threshold graphs on at most 20 vertices, and identify those that are WHD. Second, we characterize Laplacian pair state transfer on threshold graphs. In particular, we show that the existence of Laplacian vertex state transfer and Laplacian pair state transfer on a threshold graph are equivalent if and only if it is not a join of a complete graph and an empty graph of certain sizes.
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spellingShingle Structured eigenbases and pair state transfer on threshold graphs
de Lima, Leonardo
Del-Vecchio, Renata
Monterde, Hermie
Teixeira, Heber
Combinatorics
05C50, 15A18, 81P45
Recently, Macharete, Del-Vecchio, Teixeira and de Lima showed that a star and any threshold graph on the same number of vertices share the same eigenbasis relative to the Laplacian matrix. We use this fact to establish two main results in this paper. The first one is a characterization of threshold graphs that are \textit{simply structured}, i.e., their associated Laplacian matrices have eigenbases consisting of vectors with entries from the set $\{-1,0,1\}$. Then, we provide sufficient conditions such that a simply structured threshold graph is weakly Hadamard diagonalizable (WHD). This allows us to list all connected simply structured threshold graphs on at most 20 vertices, and identify those that are WHD. Second, we characterize Laplacian pair state transfer on threshold graphs. In particular, we show that the existence of Laplacian vertex state transfer and Laplacian pair state transfer on a threshold graph are equivalent if and only if it is not a join of a complete graph and an empty graph of certain sizes.
title Structured eigenbases and pair state transfer on threshold graphs
topic Combinatorics
05C50, 15A18, 81P45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13318