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In this paper, we investigate the spectral characterization of unicycle graphs with only two vertices of degree three. We use G21(s1,s2) to denote the graph obtained from Q(s1,s2) by identifying its pendant vertex and the vertex of degree two of P3, where Q(s1,s2) is the graph obtained by identifying a vertex of Cs1 and a pendant vertex of Ps2. We use G31(t1,t2) to denote the graph obtained from circle with the vertices v0v1\u22efvt1+t2+1 by adding one pendant edge at vertices v0 and vt1+1, respectively. It is shown that G21(s1,s2) (s1\u22604,6, s1\u22653, s2\u22653) and G31(t1,t2) (t1+t2\u22602, t2\u2265t1\u22651) are determined by their adjacency spectrum.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14061213","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,13]],"date-time":"2022-06-13T06:31:59Z","timestamp":1655101919000},"page":"1213","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["On Spectral Characterization of Two Classes of Unicycle Graphs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3851-3894","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jun","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China"},{"name":"The State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Intelligent Information Processing and Application, Xining 810008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haixing","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China"},{"name":"The State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Intelligent Information Processing and Application, Xining 810008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiujuan","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bondy, J., and Murty, U.S.R. 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