Determinants of Seidel matrices and a conjecture of Ghorbani

Douglas Rizzolo

Published 2019-04-09Version 1

Let $G_n$ be a simple graph on $V_n=\{v_1,\dots, v_n\}$. The Seidel matrix $S(G_n)$ of $G_n$ is the $n\times n$ matrix whose $(ij)$'th entry, for $i\neq j$ is $-1$ if $v_i\sim v_j$ and $1$ otherwise, and whose diagonal entries are $0$. We show that the proportion of simple graphs $G_n$ such that $\det(S(G_n))\geq n-1$ tends to one as $n$ tends to infinity.