Possible eigenvalue of Laplacian

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I came across an exercise of book Spectra of Graphs.

Show that there does not exist graph whose adjacency matrix eigenvalue is -1/2.

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Observe that graph eigenvalues are algebraic integers. Prove that algebraic integers that are rational must be integers.