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Largest regular multigraphs with three distinct eigenvalues

Combinatorics 2019-04-11 v2

Abstract

We deal with connected kk-regular multigraphs of order nn that has only three distinct eigenvalues. In this paper, we study the largest possible number of vertices of such a graph for given kk. For k=2,3,7k=2,3,7, the Moore graphs are largest. For k2,3,7,57k\ne 2,3,7,57, we show an upper bound nk2k+1n\leq k^2-k+1, with equality if and only if there exists a finite projective plane of order k1k-1 that admits a polarity.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02675,
  title  = {Largest regular multigraphs with three distinct eigenvalues},
  author = {Hiroshi Nozaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02675},
  year   = {2019}
}

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