Constructing highly regular expanders from hyperbolic Coxeter groups
Abstract
A graph is defined inductively to be -regular if is -regular and for every vertex of , the sphere of radius around is an -regular graph. Such a graph is said to be highly regular (HR) of level if . 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 and a subset of , we construct highly regular quotients of the 1-skeleton of the associated Wythoffian polytope , which form an infinite family of expander graphs when is indefinite and has finite vertex links. The regularity of the graphs in this family can be deduced from the Coxeter diagram of . The expansion stems from applying superapproximation to the congruence subgroups of the linear group . 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