Using the unitary similarity transformation of the adjacency matrix, we obtain a new upper bound for the independence number of the de Bruijn graph based on the spectrum of the undirected de Bruijn graph. In the case of a -ary graph of degree n this bound is of the form 7Γ 2 \ a" 1~' where &, -> 0 as n -> «>.
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