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Constructing highly regular expanders from hyperbolic Coxeter groups

Group Theory 2020-09-21 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

A graph XX is defined inductively to be (a0,,an1)(a_0,\dots,a_{n-1})-regular if XX is a0a_0-regular and for every vertex vv of XX, the sphere of radius 11 around vv is an (a1,,an1)(a_1,\dots,a_{n-1})-regular graph. Such a graph XX is said to be highly regular (HR) of level nn if an10a_{n-1}\neq 0. Chapman, Linial and Peled studied HR-graphs of level 2 and provided several methods to construct families of graphs which are expanders "globally and locally". They ask whether such HR-graphs of level 3 exist. In this paper we show how the theory of Coxeter groups, and abstract regular polytopes and their generalisations, can lead to such graphs. Given a Coxeter system (W,S)(W,S) and a subset MM of SS, we construct highly regular quotients of the 1-skeleton of the associated Wythoffian polytope PW,M\mathcal{P}_{W,M}, which form an infinite family of expander graphs when (W,S)(W,S) is indefinite and PW,M\mathcal{P}_{W,M} has finite vertex links. The regularity of the graphs in this family can be deduced from the Coxeter diagram of (W,S)(W,S). The expansion stems from applying superapproximation to the congruence subgroups of the linear group WW. This machinery gives a rich collection of families of HR-graphs, with various interesting properties, and in particular answers affirmatively the question asked by Chapman, Linial and Peled.

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@article{arxiv.2009.08548,
  title  = {Constructing highly regular expanders from hyperbolic Coxeter groups},
  author = {Marston Conder and Alexander Lubotzky and Jeroen Schillewaert and François Thilmany},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08548},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

22 pages, 2 tables. Dedicated to the memory of John Conway and Ernest Vinberg

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