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Gonality of Expander Graphs

Algebraic Geometry 2016-09-01 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We provide lower bounds on the gonality of a graph in terms of its spectral and edge expansion. As a consequence, we see that the gonality of a random 3-regular graph is asymptotically almost surely greater than one seventh its genus.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08957,
  title  = {Gonality of Expander Graphs},
  author = {Neelav Dutta and David Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08957},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages

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