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Expander graphs are highly connected sparse finite graphs. They play an important role in computer science as basic building blocks for network constructions, error correcting codes, algorithms and more. In recent years they have started to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-13 Alexander Lubotzky

This paper is the second in a series of studies on developing efficient artificial intelligence-based approaches to pathfinding on extremely large graphs (e.g. $10^{70}$ nodes) with a focus on Cayley graphs and mathematical applications.…

Permutations on a set, endowed with function composition, build a group called a symmetric group. In addition to their algebraic structure, symmetric groups have two metrics that are of particular interest to us here: the Cayley distance…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 José M. Amigó , Roberto Dale

We define a way of approximating actions on measure spaces using finite graphs; we then show that in quite general settings these graphs form a family of expanders if and only if the action is expanding in measure. This provides a somewhat…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Federico Vigolo

High-dimensional expanders are a generalization of the notion of expander graphs to simplicial complexes and give rise to a variety of applications in computer science and other fields. We provide a general tool to construct families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Laura Grave de Peralta , Inga Valentiner-Branth

Recently in graph theory several authors have studied the spectrum of the Cayley graph of the symmetric group S_n generated by the transpositions (1, i) for 2 <= i <= n. Several conjectures were made and partial results were obtained. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Guillaume Chapuy , Valentin Féray

A map on a surface whose automorphism group has a subgroup acting regularly on its vertices is called a Cayley map. Here we generalize that notion to maniplexes and polytopes. We define $\mathcal{M}$ to be a \emph{Cayley extension} of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Gabe Cunningham , Elías Mochán , Antonio Montero

We present simple graph-theoretic characterizations of Cayley graphs for monoids, semigroups and groups. We extend these characterizations to commutative monoids, semilattices, and abelian groups.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Didier Caucal

New criteria for which Cayley graphs of cyclic groups of any order can be completely determined--up to isomorphism--by the eigenvalues of their adjacency matrices is presented. Secondly, a new construction for pairs of nonisomorphic Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-14 Julia Brown

Let $S$ be a subset of a amenable group $G$ such that $e\in S$ and $S^{-1}=S$. The main result of the paper states that if the Cayley graph of $G$ with respect to $S$ has a certain combinatorial property, then every positive definite…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-15 M. Bakonyi , D. Timotin

We present a simple mechanism, which can be randomised, for constructing sparse $3$-uniform hypergraphs with strong expansion properties. These hypergraphs are constructed using Cayley graphs over $\mathbb{Z}_2^t$ and have vertex degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-26 David Conlon

Let $S$ be a set of transpositions that generates the symmetric group $S_n$, where $n \ge 3$. The transposition graph $T(S)$ is defined to be the graph with vertex set $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and with vertices $i$ and $j$ being adjacent in $T(S)$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Ashwin Ganesan

Binomial Cayley graphs are obtained by considering the binomial coefficient of the weight function of a given Cayley graph and a natural number. We introduce these objects and study two families: one associated with symmetric groups and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Bernat Bassols-Cornudella , Francesco Viganò

We introduce shortcut graphs and groups. Shortcut graphs are graphs in which cycles cannot embed without metric distortion. Shortcut groups are groups which act properly and cocompactly on shortcut graphs. These notions unify a surprisingly…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Nima Hoda

The cubic pancake graphs are Cayley graphs over the symmetric group $\mathrm{Sym}_n$ generated by three prefix reversals. There is the following open problem: characterize all the sets of three prefix reversals that generate…

It is known that after an appropriate rescaling the maximum degree of the binomial random graph converges in distribution to a Gumbel random variable. The same holds true for the maximum number of common neighbours of a $k$-vertex set, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stepan Vakhrushev , Maksim Zhukovskii

A number of authors have studied the question of when a graph can be represented as a Cayley graph on more than one nonisomorphic group. The work to date has focussed on a few special situations: when the groups are $p$-groups; when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Joy Morris , Josip Smolcic

The algebra of symmetric functions contains several interesting families of symmetric functions indexed by integer partitions or skew partitions. Given a sequence $\{u_n\}$ of symmetric functions taken from one of these families such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Velmurugan S

Circulant graphs are a widely studied family of graphs whose members possess varying amounts of symmetry. Although considerable progress has been made in finding the automorphism groups of circulant graphs under certain restrictions, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Sally Cockburn , Ryhory Hatavets , Will Swartz

We identify a relationship between a certain family of random walks on Euclidean lattices and difference matrices over cyclic groups. We then use the techniques of Fourier analysis to estimate the return probabilities of these random walks,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Aaron M Montgomery