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We characterize the equivalence and the weak equivalence of Cayley graphs for a finite group $\C{A}$. Using these characterizations, we find enumeration formulae of the equivalence classes and weak equivalence classes of Cayley graphs. As…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongseok Kim , Jin Hwan Kim , Jaeun Lee , Dianjun Wang

We introduce uniformly vertex-transitive graphs as vertex-transitive graphs satisfying a stronger condition on their automorphism groups, motivated by a problem which arises from a Sinkhorn-type algorithm. We use the derangement graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Simon Schmidt , Chase Vogeli , Moritz Weber

This article focuses on subset reachability in synchronizing automata. First, we provide families of synchronizing automata with subsets which cannot be reached with short words. These families do not fulfil Don's Conjecture about subset…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 François Gonze , Raphaël M. Jungers

For a graph $\Gamma=(V(\Gamma),E(\Gamma))$, a subset $C$ of $V(\Gamma)$ is called an $(\alpha,\beta)$-regular set in $\Gamma$, if every vertex of $C$ is adjacent to exactly $\alpha$ vertices of $C$ and every vertex of $V(\Gamma)\setminus C$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Meiqi Peng , Yuefeng Yang

Let $\Gamma=(V,E)$ be a graph. If all the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of the graph $\Gamma$ are integers, then we say that $\Gamma$ is an integral graph. A graph $\Gamma$ is determined by its spectrum if every graph cospectral to it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Jia-Bao Liu , S. Morteza Mirafzal , Ali Zafari

If $G$ is a group and $S$ a generating set, $G$ canonically embeds into the automorphism group of its Cayley graph and it is natural to try to minimize, over all generating sets, the index of this inclusion. This infimum is called the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Paul-Henry Leemann , Mikael de la Salle

We consider the complexity of Green's relations when the semigroup is given by transformations on a finite set. Green's relations can be defined by reachability in the (right/left/two-sided) Cayley graph. The equivalence classes then…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Lukas Fleischer , Manfred Kufleitner

We characterize the finitely generated groups that admit a Cayley graph whose only automorphisms are the translations, confirming a conjecture by Watkins from 1976. The proof relies on random walk techniques. As a consequence, every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Paul-Henry Leemann , Mikael de la Salle

Assume that $G$ is a finite group. For every $a, b \in\mathbb N,$ we define a graph $\Gamma_{a,b}(G)$ whose vertices correspond to the elements of $G^a\cup G^b$ and in which two tuples $(x_1,\dots,x_a)$ and $(y_1,\dots,y_b)$ are adjacent if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Cristina Acciarri , Andrea Lucchini

The theory of finite automata concerns itself with words in a free monoid together with concatenation and without further structure. There are, however, important applications which use alphabets which are structured in some sense. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hugo Bazille , Uli Fahrenberg

Let $G$ be a finite group, and $S$ be a subset of $G\setminus\{1\}$ such that $S=S^{-1}$. Suppose that $Cay(G,S)$ is the Cayley graph on $G$ with respect to the set $S$ which is the graph whose vertex set is $G$ and two vertices $a,b\in G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Alireza Abdollahi , Shahrooz Janbaz , Mojtaba Jazaeri

A graph $\Gamma$ is a bi-Cayley graph over a group $G$ if $G$ is a semiregular group of automorphisms of $\Gamma$ having two orbits. Let $G$ be a non-abelian metacyclic $p$-group for an odd prime $p$, and let $\Gamma$ be a connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Yi Wang , Yan-Quan Feng

A subset $C$ of the vertex set of a graph $\Gamma$ is called a perfect code of $\Gamma$ if every vertex of $\Gamma$ is at distance no more than one to exactly one vertex in $C$. Let $A$ be a finite abelian group and $T$ a square-free subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Xuanlong Ma , Kaishun Wang , Yuefeng Yang

Let $\Gamma$ be a finite group acting transitively on $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, and let $G=\mathrm{Cay}(\Gamma,T)$ be a Cayley graph of $\Gamma$. The graph $G$ is called normal if $T$ is closed under conjugation. In this paper, we obtain an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Xueyi Huang , Qiongxiang Huang , Sebastian M. Cioabă

A piece of a labelled graph $\Gamma$ defined by D. Gruber is a labelled path that embeds into $\Gamma$ in two essentially different ways. We prove that graphical $Gr'(\frac{1}{6})$ small cancellation groups whose associated pieces have…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Suzhen Han

For a graph $\Gamma$, the multiplicity of the eigenvalue $0$, denoted by $\eta(\Gamma)$, is called the nullity of $\Gamma$. Also the energy of $\Gamma$, denoted by $\mathcal{E}(\Gamma)$, is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Mahdi Ebrahimi

A recent development in graph-minor theory is to study local separators, vertex-sets that separate graphs locally but not necessarily globally. The local separators of a graph roughly correspond to the genuine separators of its local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Johannes Carmesin , George Kontogeorgiou , Jan Kurkofka , Will J. Turner

A graph $\Ga=(V,E)$ is called a Cayley graph of some group $T$ if the automorphism group $\Aut(\Ga)$ contains a subgroup $T$ which acts on regularly on $V$. If the subgroup $T$ is normal in $\Aut(\Ga)$ then $\Ga$ is called a normal Cayley…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jing Jian Li , Zai Ping Lu

In the present paper, we study Neumaier Cayley graphs. First, we give a criterion for a Cayley graph to be a Neumaier graph with a spread given by the cosets of a subgroup. Further, we construct a new infinite family of Neumaier Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Rhys J. Evans , Sergey Goryainov , Grigory Ryabov , Da Zhao

If $G$ is a finitely generated group and $X$ is a Cayley graph of $G$, denote by $\mathcal{C}_1^X(G)$ the subgroup of all automorphisms of $X$ commensurating $G$ and fixing the vertex corresponding to the identity. Building on the work of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Dominik Francoeur