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Integral Cayley graphs of symmetric groups on transpositions

Combinatorics 2023-05-02 v1 Group Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

We study subsets TT consisting of some transpositions (i,j)(i,j) of the symmetric group SnS_n on {1,,n}\{1,\dots,n\} such that the Cayley graph ΓT:=Cay(Sn,T)\Gamma_T:=Cay(S_n,T) is an integral graph, i.e., all eigenvalues of an adjacency matrix of ΓT\Gamma_T are integers. Graph properties of ΓT\Gamma_T are determined in terms of ones of the graph GTG_T whose vertex set is {1,,n}\{1,\dots,n\} and {i,j}\{i,j\} is an edge if and only if (i,j)T(i,j)\in T. Here we prove that if GTG_T is a tree then ΓT\Gamma_T is integral if and only if TT is isomorphic to the star graph K1,n1K_{1,n-1}, answering Problem 5 of [Electron. J. Comnin., 29(2) (2022) \# P2.9]. Problem 6 of the latter article asks to find necessary and sufficient conditions on TT for integralness of Cay(Sn,T)Cay(S_n,T) without any further assumption on TT. We show that if GTG_T is a graph which we call it a ``generalized complete multipartite graph" then Cay(Sn,T)Cay(S_n,T) is integral. We conjecture that Cay(Sn,T)Cay(S_n,T) is integral only if GTG_T is a generalized complete multipartitie graph. To support the latter conjecture we show its validity whenever GTG_T is some classes of graphs including cycles and cubic graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2305.00279,
  title  = {Integral Cayley graphs of symmetric groups on transpositions},
  author = {Alireza Abdollahi and Majid Arezoomand and Mahdi Ebrahimi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00279},
  year   = {2023}
}

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8 pages