A family of graphs that are determined by their normalized Laplacian spectra

Abstract

Let $F_{p,q}$ be the generalized friendship graph $K_1\bigvee (p{K}_q)$ on $pq+1$ vertices obtained by joining a vertex to all vertices of $p$ disjoint copies of the complete graph $K_q$ on $q$ vertices. In this paper, we prove that $F_{p,q}$ is determined by its normalized Laplacian spectrum if and only if $q\ge 2$, or $q=1$ and $p\le 2$.

10 pages, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2018