Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4603851 Linear Algebra and its Applications 2006 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this article we show that for any forest there exists a labelling of the vertices for which the row-reduced echelon form of its adjacency matrix is a {−1, 0, 1}-matrix. This result clearly provides an affirmative answer to the conjecture: The null space of the adjacency matrix of every forest has a {−1, 0, 1}-basis.

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