The spectra of some families of digraphs Original Research Article

Let G be a digraph (or a graph, when seen as a symmetric digraph) with adjacency matrix A, having the eigenvalue λ with associated eigenvector v. As it is well known, the entries of v can be interpreted as charges in each vertex. Then, the linear transformation v maps to Av corresponds to a natural displacement of charges, where each vertex sends a copy of its charge to its in-neighbors and absorbs a copy of the charges of its out-neighbors, so the resulting charge distribution is just λv. In this work we use this approach to derive some old and new results about the spectral characterization of G. More precisely, we show how to obtain the spectra of some families of (di)graphs, such as the partial line digraphs and the line graphs of regular or semiregular graphs.