R. O. Braga

Pendant paths and integral generalized sun graphs

A graph is integral if the spectrum of its adjacency matrix consists entirely of integers. We prove that every simple graph having a pendant path with at least three edges has an eigenvalue in $(1,2\cos(\pi/9)]$ and one in $[-2\cos(\pi/9),-1)$, and hence is not integral. This settles a conjecture of Braga, Del-Vecchio...