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A lower bound of toughness of regular graphs: in terms of second largest eigenvalue

Combinatorics 2026-05-04 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a connected (non-complete) dd-regular graph with d3d\geq3. Let c(GS)c(G-S) denote the number of components of GSG-S for any cut SS of GG. The toughness t(G)t(G) of GG is defined as min{Sc(GS)}\min\left\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\right\}, where the minimum is taken over all proper cuts SS of GG. Let λ2(G)\lambda_{2}(G) denote the second largest eigenvalue of GG. In this paper, we prove t(G)min{d+1d(dλ2(G)),1}.t(G)\geq\min\left\{\frac{d+1}{d}(d-\lambda_{2}(G)),1\right\}.

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@article{arxiv.2605.00627,
  title  = {A lower bound of toughness of regular graphs: in terms of second largest eigenvalue},
  author = {Wenqian Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.00627},
  year   = {2026}
}