Small regular graphs of girth 7

In this paper, we construct new infinite families of regular graphs of girth 7 of smallest order known so far. Our constructions are based on combinatorial and geometric properties of (q + 1, 8)-cages, for q a prime power. We remove vertices from such cages and add matchings among the vertices of mi...

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Autores: Abreu, Marien, Araujo Pardo, Gabriela, Balbuena Martínez, Maria Camino Teófila|||0000-0003-4190-4287, Labbate, D., Salas Salvado, Jordi
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86686
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86686
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Combinatorial analysis
Directed graphs
Cages
Girth
Incidence graph
Bipartite graphs
Construction
Anàlisi combinatòria
Grafs dirigits
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Combinatòria
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Resumo:In this paper, we construct new infinite families of regular graphs of girth 7 of smallest order known so far. Our constructions are based on combinatorial and geometric properties of (q + 1, 8)-cages, for q a prime power. We remove vertices from such cages and add matchings among the vertices of minimum degree to achieve regularity in the new graphs. We obtain (q + 1)-regular graphs of girth 7 and order 2q(3) + q(2) + 2q for each even prime power q >= 4, and of order 2q(3) + 2q(2) q + 1 for each odd prime power q >= 5.