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On the characterization of some algebraically defined bipartite graphs of girth eight

Combinatorics 2020-07-31 v2

Abstract

For any field F\mathbb{F} and polynomials f2,f3F[x,y]f_{2},f_{3}\in\mathbb{F}[x,y], let ΓF(f2,f3)\Gamma_{\mathbb{F}}(f_{2},f_{3}) denote the bipartite graph with vertex partition PLP\cup L, where PP and LL are two copies of F3\mathbb{F}^{3}, and (p1,p2,p3)P(p_{1},p_{2},p_{3})\in P is adjacent to [l1,l2,l3]L[l_{1},l_{2},l_{3}]\in L if and only if p2+l2=f2(p1,l1)p_{2}+l_{2}=f_{2}(p_{1},l_{1}) and p3+l3=f3(p1,l1)p_{3}+l_{3}=f_{3}(p_{1},l_{1}). The graph Γ3(F)=ΓF(xy,xy2)\Gamma_{3}(\mathbb{F})=\Gamma_{\mathbb{F}}(xy,xy^{2}) is known to be of girth eight. When F=Fq\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{F}_q is a finite field of odd size qq or F=F\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{F}_{\infty} is an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, the graph Γ3(F)\Gamma_{3}(\mathbb{F}) is conjectured to be the unique one with girth at least eight among those ΓF(f2,f3)\Gamma_{\mathbb{F}}(f_{2},f_{3}) up to isomorphism. This conjecture has been confirmed for the case that both f2,f3f_{2},f_{3} are monomials over Fq\mathbb{F}_q, and for the case that at least one of f2,f3f_{2},f_{3} is a monomial over F\mathbb{F}_{\infty}. If one of f2,f3Fq[x,y]f_{2},f_{3}\in\mathbb{F}_q[x,y] is a monomial, it has also been proved the existence of a positive integer MM such that G=ΓFqM(f2,f3)G=\Gamma_{\mathbb{F}_{q^{M}}}(f_2,f_3) is isomorphic to Γ3(FqM)\Gamma_{3}(\mathbb{F}_{q^{M}}) provided GG has girth at least eight. In this paper, these results are shown to be valid when the restriction on the polynomials f2,f3f_2,f_3 is relaxed further to that one of them is the product of two univariate polynomials. Furthermore, all of such polynomials f2,f3f_2,f_3 are characterized completely.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04592,
  title  = {On the characterization of some algebraically defined bipartite graphs of girth eight},
  author = {Ming Xu and Xiaoyan Cheng and Yuansheng Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04592},
  year   = {2020}
}