E-cospectral hypergraphs and some hypergraphs determined by their spectra

Abstract

Two $k$-uniform hypergraphs are said to be cospectral (E-cospectral), if their adjacency tensors have the same characteristic polynomial (E-characteristic polynomial). A $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is said to be determined by its spectrum, if there is no other non-isomorphic $k$-uniform hypergraph cospectral with $H$. In this note, we give a method for constructing E-cospectral hypergraphs, which is similar with Godsil-McKay switching. Some hypergraphs are shown to be determined by their spectra.