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On bilinear forms represented by trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Walter D. Neumann
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States of America
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The adjacency matrix of a weighted graph determines an integral bilinear form. The trees with unimodular adjacency matrices are described with special emphasis on the definite and semidefinite cases, since they arise as configuration graphs of good divisors in compact complex surfaces.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

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