Spectral graph theory looks at the interplay between the structure of a graph and the eigenvalues of a matrix associated with the graph. Many interesting graphs have rich structure which can help in determining the eigenvalues associated with some particular matrix of a graph. This survey looks at some common techniques in working with and determining the eigenvalues associated with the normali...

We prove that the eigenvalues of a certain highly non-self-adjoint operator that arises in fluid mechanics correspond, up to scaling by a positive constant, to those of a self-adjoint operator with compact resolvent; hence there are infinitely many real eigenvalues which accumulate only at ±∞. We use this result to determine the asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues and to compute some of ...