Spectra of subdivision-vertex and subdivision-edge neighbourhood coronae

Abstract

Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. The subdivision graph $\mathcal{S}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the graph obtained by inserting a new vertex into every edge of $G$. Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be two vertex disjoint graphs. The subdivision-vertex neighbourhood corona of $G_1$ and $G_2$, denoted by $G_1 \boxdot G_2$, is the graph obtained from $\mathcal{S}(G_1)$ and $|V(G_1)|$ copies of $G_2$, all vertex disjoint, and joining the neighbours of the $i$th vertex of $V(G_1)$ to every vertex in the $i$th copy of $G_2$. The subdivision-edge neighbourhood corona of $G_1$ and $G_2$, denoted by $G_1 \boxminus G_2$, is the graph obtained from $\mathcal{S}(G_1)$ and $|I(G_1)|$ copies of $G_2$, all vertex disjoint, and joining the neighbours of the $i$th vertex of $I(G_1)$ to every vertex in the $i$th copy of $G_2$, where $I(G_1)$ is the set of inserted vertices of $\mathcal{S}(G_1)$. In this paper we determine the adjacency spectra, the Laplacian spectra and the signless Laplacian spectra of $G_1\boxdot G_2$ (respectively, $G_1\boxminus G_2$) in terms of the corresponding spectra of $G_1$ and $G_2$. As applications, these results enable us to construct infinitely many pairs of cospectral graphs, and using the results on the Laplacian spectra of subdivision-vertex neighbourhood coronae, new families of expander graphs are constructed from known ones.