Reducing the adjacency matrix of a tree

Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 34-43

  Fricke, Gerd H ^a   Hedetniemi, Stephen T ^b   Jacobs, David P ^b   Trevisan, Vilmar ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adjacency matrix; Determinant; Eigenvalue; Graph; Rank; Tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009356227     PISSN: 10813810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13001/1081-3810.1002     Document Type: Article

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