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On solid density of Cayley digraphs on finite Abelian groups

Combinatorics 2018-06-12 v1

Abstract

Let Γ=\Gamma=Cay(G,T)(G,T) be a Cayley digraph over a finite Abelian group GG with respect the generating set T∌0T\not\ni0. Γ\Gamma has order ord(Γ)=G=n(\Gamma)=|G|=n and degree deg(Γ)=T=d(\Gamma)=|T|=d. Let k(Γ)k(\Gamma) be the diameter of Γ\Gamma and denote κ(d,n)=min{k(Γ): ord(Γ)=n,deg(Γ)=d}\kappa(d,n)=\min\{k(\Gamma):~\textrm{ord}(\Gamma)=n,\textrm{deg}(\Gamma)=d\}. We give a closed expression, (d,n)\ell(d,n), of a tight lower bound of κ(d,n)\kappa(d,n) by using the so called {\em solid density} introduced by Fiduccia, Forcade and Zito. A digraph Γ\Gamma of degree dd is called {\em tight} when k(Γ)=κ(d,Γ)=(d,Γ)k(\Gamma)=\kappa(d,|\Gamma|)=\ell(d,|\Gamma|) holds. Recently, the {\em Dilating Method} has been developed to derive a sequence of digraphs of constant solid density. In this work, we use this method to derive a sequence of tight digraphs {Γi}i=1c(Γ)\{\Gamma_i\}_{i=1}^{\textrm{c}(\Gamma)} from a given tight digraph Γ\Gamma. Moreover, we find a closed expression of the cardinality c(Γ)(\Gamma) of this sequence. It is perhaps surprising that c(Γ)(\Gamma) depends only on nn and dd and not on the structure of Γ\Gamma.

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@article{arxiv.1806.03899,
  title  = {On solid density of Cayley digraphs on finite Abelian groups},
  author = {F. Aguiló and M. Zaragozá},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.03899},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages and 3 figures

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