Subtree-separation conjecture for the -spectrum of trees
Subtree-separation conjecture for the -spectrum of trees
Let be a tree on vertices, and let be its moments. These moments yield universal support-forest-counting combinations, and the Laplacian spectrum supplies the ordinary vertex-level spectral data. An embedded forest count means the number of copies of the corresponding forest occurring in .
Subtree separation conjecture. The universal support-forest-counting combinations arising from , together with the Laplacian spectrum, determine all embedded forest counts of . In particular they distinguish trees.
This is presented as a stronger, potentially more approachable form of the spectral support-forest-profile conjecture. It would imply that the combined spectral data reconstruct every embedded forest statistic and hence separate non-isomorphic trees.
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Boris Shapiro, “The (n-2,2)-Spectrum of a Graph”, arXiv:2605.17501 (2026).
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