The geometry of t-cliques in k-walk-regular graphs

A graph is walk-regular if the number of cycles of length $\ell$ rooted at a given vertex is a constant through all the vertices. For a walk-regular graph $G$ with $d+1$ different eigenvalues and spectrally maximum diameter $D=d$, we study the geometry of its $d$-cliques, that is, the sets of vertic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Dalfó Simó, Cristina|||0000-0002-8438-9353, Fiol Mora, Miquel Àngel|||0000-0003-1337-4952, Garriga Valle, Ernest
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
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:2117/2355
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/2355
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
Walk-regular graphs
k-walk-regular graphs
Spectral regularity
Crossel local multiplicities of eigenvalues
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
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Sumario:A graph is walk-regular if the number of cycles of length $\ell$ rooted at a given vertex is a constant through all the vertices. For a walk-regular graph $G$ with $d+1$ different eigenvalues and spectrally maximum diameter $D=d$, we study the geometry of its $d$-cliques, that is, the sets of vertices which are mutually at distance $d$. When these vertices are projected onto an eigenspace of its adjacency matrix, we show that they form a regular tetrahedron and we compute its parameters. Moreover, the results are generalized to the case of $k$-walk-regular graphs, a family which includes both walk-regular and distance-regular graphs, and their $t$-cliques or vertices at distance $t$ from each other.