Smith normal form equivalence for rooted-tree products

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Let T\mathsf{T} be the tree in Fig., and let TT be any nontrivial tree with root rr. Define G1=T(r)⊙T(4)G_1=T(r) \odot \mathsf{T}(4) and G2=T(r)⊙T(7)G_2=T(r) \odot \mathsf{T}(7). Smith normal form conjecture. The matrices tI−Lμ(G1)tI-L_\mu(G_1) and tI−Lμ(G2)tI-L_\mu(G_2) should have the same Smith normal form over Q(μ)[t]\mathbb{Q}(\mu)[t]. The claim extends the preceding proved result from paths and stars to arbitrary nontrivial rooted trees; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Yi-Zheng Fan, Ruo-Jie Xing, Yi-Liu Zhang and Wei Wang, “Degree-similar graphs and cospectral graphs”, arXiv:2509.01520 (2025).

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3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2208.12447, arXiv:1602.00166.

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