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Self-Similar Graphs

Combinatorics 2013-10-10 v1

Abstract

For any graph GG on nn vertices and for any {\em symmetric} subgraph JJ of Kn,nK_{n,n}, we construct an infinite sequence of graphs based on the pair (G,J)(G,J). The First graph in the sequence is GG, then at each stage replacing every vertex of the previous graph by a copy of GG and every edge of the previous graph by a copy of JJ the new graph is constructed. We call these graphs {\em self-similar} graphs. We are interested in delineating those pairs (G,J)(G,J) for which the chromatic numbers of the graphs in the sequence are bounded. Here we have some partial results. When GG is a complete graph and JJ is a special matching we show that every graph in the resulting sequence is an {\em expander} graph.

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@article{arxiv.1310.2268,
  title  = {Self-Similar Graphs},
  author = {Kiran B. Chilakamarri and M. F. Khan and C. E. Larson and C. J. Tymczak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2268},
  year   = {2013}
}

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