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Question from section 1.5 of Chung's Spectral Graph Theory
I'm (slowly) reading Fan Chung's Spectral Graph Theory. At the moment, I'm in section 1.5 which is about eigenvalues and random walks. There's a small technical point that puzzles me.
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Kinks in the eigenvalue spectrum of short range lattices
Take a periodic one-dimensional lattice of size $N$ with $2k$ nearest neighborers. That is, vertex $i$ is connected to $i+1,i+2,...,i+k$ and $i-1,i-2,...i-k$ (with the understanding that the indices ...
