A new approach to the spectral excess theorem for distance-regular graphs

The Spectral Excess Theorem provides a quasi-spectral characterization for a (regular) graph $\Gamma$ with $d+1$ different eigenvalues to be distance-regular graph, in terms of the mean (d-1)-excess of its vertices.\ The original approach, due to Fiol and Garriga in $1997$, was obtained in a wide co...

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Autores: Fiol Mora, Miquel Àngel|||0000-0003-1337-4952, Gago Álvarez, Silvia|||0000-0002-0869-6079, Garriga Valle, Ernest
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/2823
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/2823
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
Matrices
Distance-regular graphs
Eigenvalues
Excess
Grafs, Teoria de
Matrius (Àlgebra)
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
Classificació AMS::15 Linear and multilinear algebra
matrix theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:The Spectral Excess Theorem provides a quasi-spectral characterization for a (regular) graph $\Gamma$ with $d+1$ different eigenvalues to be distance-regular graph, in terms of the mean (d-1)-excess of its vertices.\ The original approach, due to Fiol and Garriga in $1997$, was obtained in a wide context from a local point of view, so giving a characterization of the so-called pseudo-distance-regularity around a vertex.\ In this paper we present a new simple method based in a global point of view, and where the mean degree of the distance-$d$ graph $\Gamma_d$ plays an essential role.