The real symmetric matrices of odd order with a P-set of maximum size
Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, Tome 66 (2016) no. 3, pp. 1007-1026.

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Suppose that $A$ is a real symmetric matrix of order $n$. Denote by $m_A(0)$ the nullity of $A$. For a nonempty subset $\alpha $ of $\{1,2,\ldots ,n\}$, let $A(\alpha )$ be the principal submatrix of $A$ obtained from $A$ by deleting the rows and columns indexed by $\alpha $. When $m_{A(\alpha )}(0)=m_{A}(0)+|\alpha |$, we call $\alpha $ a P-set of $A$. It is known that every P-set of $A$ contains at most $\lfloor {n}/{2} \rfloor $ elements. The graphs of even order for which one can find a matrix attaining this bound are now completely characterized. However, the odd case turned out to be more difficult to tackle. As a first step to the full characterization of these graphs of odd order, we establish some conditions for such graphs $G$ under which there is a real symmetric matrix $A$ whose graph is $G$ and contains a P-set of size ${(n-1)}/{2}$.
DOI : 10.1007/s10587-016-0306-6
Classification : 05C50, 15A18
Mots-clés : real symmetric matrix; graph; multiplicity of eigenvalues; P-set; P-vertices 
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Du, Zhibin; da Fonseca, Carlos M. The real symmetric matrices of odd order with a P-set of maximum size. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, Tome 66 (2016) no. 3, pp. 1007-1026. doi : 10.1007/s10587-016-0306-6. https://geodesic-test.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.1007/s10587-016-0306-6/

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