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On the complexity of Cayley graphs on a dihedral group

Combinatorics 2023-12-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the complexity of an infinite family of Cayley graphs Dn=Cay(Dn,b±β1,b±β2,,b±βs,abγ1,abγ2,,abγt)\mathcal{D}_{n}=Cay(\mathbb{D}_{n}, b^{\pm\beta_1},b^{\pm\beta_2},\ldots,b^{\pm\beta_s}, a b^{\gamma_1}, a b^{\gamma_2},\ldots, a b^{\gamma_t} ) on the dihedral group Dn=a,ba2=1,bn=1,(ab)2=1\mathbb{D}_{n}=\langle a,b| a^2=1, b^n=1,(a\,b)^2=1\rangle of order 2n.2n. We obtain a closed formula for the number τ(n)\tau(n) of spanning trees in Dn\mathcal{D}_{n} in terms of Chebyshev polynomials, investigate some arithmetical properties of this function, and find its asymptotics as n.n\to\infty. Moreover, we show that the generating function F(x)=n=1τ(n)xnF(x)=\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty\tau(n)x^n is a rational function with integer coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16447,
  title  = {On the complexity of Cayley graphs on a dihedral group},
  author = {Bobo Hua and Alexander Mednykh and Ilya Mednykh and Lili Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16447},
  year   = {2023}
}