The spectrum of a class of uniform hypergraphs

Abstract

A generalized power hypergraph $\mathcal{H}^k_s$ is obtained from a base hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ by means of some simple edge-expansion operations. Kang, Liu, Qi and Yuan [8] proved that the nonzero eigenvalues of $\mathcal{H}$ give rise to nonzero eigenvalues of $\mathcal{H}^k_s$. In this paper we show that all nonzero eigenvalues of $\mathcal{H}^k_s$ may be computed from the eigenvalues of its base hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ and of its subgraphs. To prove this, we derive spectral results about edge-expansion operations that may be interesting on their own sake.