Abstract
Given a graph G, consider the family of real symmetric matrices with the property that the pattern of their nonzero off-diagonal entries corresponds to the edges of G. For the past 30 years a central problem has been to determine which spectra are realizable in this matrix class. Using combinatorial methods, we identify a family of graphs and multiplicity lists whose realizable spectra are highly restricted. In particular, we construct trees with multiplicity lists that require a unique spectrum, up to shifting and scaling. This represents the most extreme possible failure of spectral arbitrariness for a multiplicity list, and greatly extends all previously known instances of this phenomenon, in which only single linear constraints on the eigenvalues were observed.
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