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Abstract
The tensor spectra of the power hypergraph of a graph G is called the high-order spectra of G. In this paper, we show that all Smith graphs are determined by their high-order spectra. We give some high-order cospectral invariants of trees and use them to show that some cospectral trees constructed by the classical Schwenk method can be distinguished by their high-order spectra.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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