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All graphs considered are simple and undirected. The Inverse Eigenvalue Problem of a Graph $G$ (IEP-G) aims to find all possible spectra for matrices whose $(i,j)-$entry, for $i\neq j$, is nonzero precisely when $i$ is adjacent to $j$. A cluster in a graph $G$ is a pair of vertex subsets $(C, S)$, where $C$ is a maximal set of cardinality $\vert C\vert\geq 2$ of independent vertices sharing the same set $S$ of $\vert S\vert$ neighbors. Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices with a cluster $(C, S)$ and $H$ be a graph of order $\vert C\vert$. Let $G(H)$ be the connected graph obtained from $G$ and $H$ when the edges of $H$ are added to the edges of $G$ by identifying the vertices of $H$ with the vertices in $C$. In this paper, we construct a symmetric matrix with associated complete graph, which satisfies some interesting properties. This result is applied to obtain new sufficient conditions on the IEP-G, when $G$ is a graph of order $n$ having a clique of order $k$ and a cluster $(C,S)$, where $\vert C\vert=n-k$ and $\vert S\vert=r\leq k$, as well as, for the graph $G(K_{n-k})$, being $G$ as before. In particular, when $G$ is a graph obtained from $K_{n}$ by deleting a single edge $e_{k}\in E(K_{n})$, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition on the IEP-G. Several illustrative example are given. The constructive nature of our results generate algorithmic procedures that always allow one to compute a solution matrix., Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures

An $n\times n$ matrix $C$ is said to be {\it centrosymmetric} if it satisfies the relation $JCJ=C$, where $J$ is the $n\times n$ counteridentity matrix. Centrosymmetric matrices have a rich eigenstructure that has been studied extensively in the literature. Many results for centrosymmetric matrices have been generalized to wider classes of matrices that arise in a wide variety of disciplines. In this paper, we obtain interesting spectral properties for nonnegative centrosymmetric matrices. We show how to change one single eigenvalue, two or three eigenvalues of an $n\times n$ nonnegative centrosymmetric matrix without changing any of the remaining eigenvalues neither nonnegativity nor the centrosymmetric structure. Moreover, our results allow partially answer some known questions given by Guo [11] and by Guo and Guo [12]. Our proofs generate algorithmic procedures that allow to compute a solution matrix., Comment: 23 pages

A caterpillar graph $T(p_1, \ldots, p_r)$ of order $n= r+\sum_{i=1}^r p_i$, $r\geq 2$, is a tree such that removing all its pendent vertices gives rise to a path of order $r$. In this paper we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for a real number to be an eigenvalue of the Randi\'c matrix of $T(p_1, \ldots, p_r)$. This result is applied to determine the extremal caterpillars for the Randi\'c energy of $T(p_1,\ldots, p_r)$ for cases $r=2$ (the double star) and $r=3$. We characterize the extremal caterpillars for $r=2$. Moreover, we study the family of caterpillars $T\big(p,n-p-q-3,q\big)$ of order $n$, where $q$ is a function of $p$, and we characterize the extremal caterpillars for three cases: $q=p$, $q=n-p-b-3$ and $q=b$, for $b\in \{1,\ldots,n-6\}$ fixed. Some illustrative examples are included., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

Let G be a simple undirected connected graph. In this paper, new upper bounds on the distance Laplacian spectral radius of G are obtained. Moreover, new lower and upper bounds for the distance signless Laplacian spectral radius of G are derived. Some of the above mentioned bounds are sharp and the graphs attaining the corresponding bound are characterized. Several illustrative examples are included., Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures