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Regular sets in Cayley graphs

Combinatorics 2022-11-07 v3

Abstract

In a graph Γ\Gamma with vertex set VV, a subset CC of VV is called an (a,b)(a,b)-perfect set if every vertex in CC has exactly aa neighbors in CC and every vertex in VCV\setminus C has exactly bb neighbors in CC, where aa and bb are nonnegative integers. In the literature (0,1)(0,1)-perfect sets are known as perfect codes and (1,1)(1,1)-perfect sets are known as total perfect codes. In this paper we prove that, for any finite group GG, if a non-trivial normal subgroup HH of GG is a perfect code in some Cayley graph of GG, then it is also an (a,b)(a,b)-perfect set in some Cayley graph of GG for any pair of integers aa and bb with 0aH10\leqslant a\leqslant|H|-1 and 0bH0\leqslant b\leqslant |H| such that gcd(2,H1)\gcd(2,|H|-1) divides aa. A similar result involving total perfect codes is also proved in the paper.

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@article{arxiv.2006.05100,
  title  = {Regular sets in Cayley graphs},
  author = {Yanpeng Wang and Binzhou Xia and Sanming Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05100},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages

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