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Weakly distance-regular digraphs is a directed version of distance-regular graphs. In this paper, we characterize all weakly distance-regular digraphs of diameter 2.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Xiangli Wang , Yuefeng Yang

In 2017, Qiao and Koolen showed that for any fixed integer $D\geq 3$, there are only finitely many such graphs with $\theta_{\min}\leq -\alpha k$, where $0<\alpha<1$ is any fixed number. In this paper, we will study non-bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Zhi Qiao , Yifan Jing , Jack Koolen

There are finitely many graphs with diameter $2$ and girth 5. What if the girth 5 assumption is relaxed? Apart from stars, are there finitely many triangle-free graphs with diameter $2$ and no $K_{2,3}$ subgraph? This question is related to…

We show that a cubic graph $G$ of order $n$ has an induced $2$-regular subgraph of order at least a) $\frac{n-2}{4-\frac{4}{k}}$, if $G$ has no induced cycle of length more than $k$, b) $\frac{5n+6}{8}$, if $G$ has no induced cycle of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Michael A. Henning , Felix Joos , Christian Löwenstein , Dieter Rautenbach

Highly-regular graphs can be regarded as a combinatorial generalization of distance-regular graphs. From this standpoint, we study combinatorial aspects of highly-regular graphs. As a result, we give the following three main results in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Taichi Kousaka

We perform an exhaustive search for the minimum 4-regular unit distance graph resulting in a lower bound of 34 vertices.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Sascha Kurz

In this paper, we study the problem that which of distance-regular graphs admit a perfect $1$-code. Among other results, we characterize distance-regular line graphs which admit a perfect $1$-code. Moreover, we characterize all known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Mojtaba Jazaeri

Distance-regular graphs have many beautiful combinatorial properties. Distance-transitive graphs have very strong symmetries, and they are distance-regular, i.e. distance-transitivity implies distance-regularity. In this paper, we give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Hui Zhou , Cheryl Praeger , Michael Giudici , Rongquan Feng , Xingui Fang

We introduce the concept of distance mean-regular graph, which can be seen as a generalization of both vertex-transitive and distance-regular graphs. Let $\Gamma$ be a graph with vertex set $V$, diameter $D$, adjacency matrix $A$, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-18 V. Diego , M. A. Fiol

We look at the question of which distance-regular graphs are core-complete, meaning they are isomorphic to their own core or have a complete core. We build on Roberson's homomorphism matrix approach by which method he proved the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Annemarie Geertsema , Chris Godsil , Krystal Guo

A graph $G$ is called $C_4$-free if it does not contain the cycle $C_4$ as an induced subgraph. Hubenko, Solymosi and the first author proved (answering a question of Erd\H os) a peculiar property of $C_4$-free graphs: $C_4$ graphs with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-22 A. Gyarfas , G. N. Sarkozy

We construct distance-regular graphs, including strongly regular graphs, admitting a transitive action of the Chevalley groups $G_2(4)$ and $G_2(5)$, the orthogonal group $O(7,3)$ and the Tits group $T=$$^2F_4(2)'$. Most of the constructed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Dean Crnkovic , Sanja Rukavina , Andrea Svob

We consider the class of (C4, diamond)-free graphs; graphs in this class do not contain a C4 or a diamond as an induced subgraph. We provide an efficient recognition algorithm for this class. We count the number of maximal cliques in a (C4,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Elaine M. Eschen , Chinh T. Hoang , Jeremy P. Spinrad , R. Sritharan

A graph is edge-distance-regular when it is distance-regular around each of its edges and it has the same intersection numbers for any edge taken as a root. In this paper we give some (combinatorial and algebraic) proofs of the fact that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-23 M. Cámara , C. Dalfó , C. Delorme , M. A. Fiol , H. Suzuki

The concept of pseudo-distance-regularity around a vertex of a graph is a natural generalization, for non-regular graphs, of the standard distance-regularity around a vertex. In this note, we prove that a pseudo-distance-regular graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-28 M. A. Fiol

In 2010, Koolen and Bang proposed the following conjecture: For a fixed integer $m \geq 2$, any geometric distance-regular graph with smallest eigenvalue $-m$, diameter $D \geq 3$ and $c_2 \geq 2$ is either a Johnson graph, a Grassmann…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Chenhui Lv , Jack H. Koolen

For non-negative integers~$k$, we consider graphs in which every vertex has exactly $k$ vertices at distance~$2$, i.e., graphs whose distance-$2$ graphs are $k$-regular. We call such graphs $k$-metamour-regular motivated by the terminology…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Elisabeth Gaar , Daniel Krenn

The diameter of a graph is the maximum distance among all pairs of vertices. Thus a graph $G$ has diameter $d$ if any two vertices are at distance at most $d$ and there are two vertices at distance $d$. We are interested in studying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Laila Loudiki , Mustapha Kchikech , El Hassan Essaky

For a simple graph $G$, the $2$-distance graph, $D_2(G)$, is a graph with the vertex set $V(G)$ and two vertices are adjacent if and only if their distance is $2$ in the graph $G$. In this paper, for graphs $G$ with diameter 2, we show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-13 S. H. Jafari , S. R. Musawi

A $t$-walk-regular graph is a graph for which the number of walks of given length between two vertices depends only on the distance between these two vertices, as long as this distance is at most $t$. Such graphs generalize distance-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Marc Cámara , Edwin R. van Dam , Jack H. Koolen , Jongyook Park