A general method to obtain the spectrum and local spectra of a graph from its regular partitions

Abstract

It is well known that, in general, part of the spectrum of a graph can be obtained from the adjacency matrix of its quotient graph given by a regular partition. In this paper, we propose a method to obtain all the spectrum, and also the local spectra, of a graph $\Gamma$ from the quotient matrices of some of its regular partitions. As examples, it is shown how to find the eigenvalues and (local) multiplicities of walk-regular, distance-regular, and distance-biregular graphs.