New family of small regular graphs of girth 5

A (k, g)-cage is a k-regular graph of girth g of minimum order. In this work, we focus on girth g = 5, where cages are known only for degrees k ≤ 7. When k ≥ 8, except perhaps for k = 57, the order of a (k, 5)-cage is strictly greater than 1 + k2. Considering the relationship between finite geometri...

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Autores: Abajo Casado, María Encarnación, Araujo-Pardo, G., Balbuena, C., Bendala García, Manuel Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/163711
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/163711
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2016.09.025
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Regular graph
Cage
Girth
Amalgam
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Sumario:A (k, g)-cage is a k-regular graph of girth g of minimum order. In this work, we focus on girth g = 5, where cages are known only for degrees k ≤ 7. When k ≥ 8, except perhaps for k = 57, the order of a (k, 5)-cage is strictly greater than 1 + k2. Considering the relationship between finite geometries and graphs we establish upper constructive bounds that improve the best so far.