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Expander spanning subgraphs with large girth

Combinatorics 2021-12-04 v1 Metric Geometry Probability

Abstract

We conjecture that finite graphs with positive Cheeger constant admit a spanning subgraph with positive Cheeger constant and girth proportional to the diameter. We prove this conjecture for regular expander graphs with large expansion. Our proof relies on the Local Lemma.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15502,
  title  = {Expander spanning subgraphs with large girth},
  author = {Itai Benjamini and Mikolaj Fraczyk and Gabor Kun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15502},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1303.4982

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