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On expansion of $G_{n, d}$ with respect to $G_{m, d}$

Combinatorics 2015-06-09 v1

Abstract

In several works, Mendel and Naor have introduced and developed theory surrounding a nonlinear expansion constant similar to the spectral gap for sequences of graphs, in which one considers embeddings of a graph GG into a metric space XX \cite{mendel2010towards, mendel2013nonlinear, mendel2014expanders}. Here, we investigate the open question of whether the random regular graph Gn,dG_{n, d} is an expander when embedded into the metric space of a random regular graph Gm,dG_{m, d} a.a.s., where mnm\leq n. We show that if mm is fixed, the answer is affirmative. In addition, when mm\to \infty, we provide partial solutions to the problem in the case that dd is fixed or that dd\to \infty under the constraint d=o(m1/2)d=o(m^{1/2}).

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@article{arxiv.1506.02614,
  title  = {On expansion of $G_{n, d}$ with respect to $G_{m, d}$},
  author = {Ioana Dumitriu and Mary Radcliffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02614},
  year   = {2015}
}