Are two non isomorphic graphs with the same spectrum of adjacency matrix possible?
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Non isomorphic graph and spectrum of a adjacency matrix
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It is very likely possible. They called that kind of graph "isospectral" or "cospectral".
Check the Table1 in the following paper.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.3646.pdf
It says there are total 274668 non-isomorphic graphs that have 9 vertices. But 51039 of them have the same eigenvalues according to Adjacency. Btw, if you use normalized laplacian instead of Adjacency, there are fewer (just 1092 pairs) cospectral graphs.
The complete bipartite graph $K_{1,4}$ and the disjoint union of the cycle $C_4$ are the smallest pair of examples.