scholarly journals Triple intersection numbers of Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1246-1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matjaž Urlep
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Ying Tan ◽  
Xiaoye Liang ◽  
Jack Koolen

In the survey paper by Van Dam, Koolen and Tanaka (2016), they asked to classify the thin $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graphs. In this paper, we show that a thin distance-regular graph with the same intersection numbers as a Grassmann graph $J_q(n, D)~ (n \geqslant 2D)$ is the Grassmann graph if $D$ is large enough.


10.37236/7347 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Štefko Miklavič

Let $\Gamma$ denote a bipartite distance-regular graph with diameter $D$. In [Caughman (2004)], Caughman showed that if $D \ge 12$, then $\Gamma$ is $Q$-polynomial if and only if one of the following (i)-(iv) holds: (i) $\Gamma$ is the ordinary $2D$-cycle, (ii) $\Gamma$ is the Hamming cube $H(D,2)$, (iii) $\Gamma$ is the antipodal quotient of the Hamming cube $H(2D,2)$, (iv) the intersection numbers of $\Gamma$ satisfy $c_i = (q^i - 1)/(q-1)$, $b_i = (q^D-q^i)/(q-1)$ $(0 \le i \le D)$, where $q$ is an integer at least $2$. In this paper we show that the above result is true also for bipartite distance-regular graphs with $D \in \{9,10,11\}$.


10.37236/7763 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janoš Vidali

A package for the Sage computer algebra system is developed for checking feasibility of a given intersection array for a distance-regular graph. We use this tool to show that there is no distance-regular graph with intersection array$$\{(2r+1)(4r+1)(4t-1), 8r(4rt-r+2t), (r+t)(4r+1); 1, (r+t)(4r+1), 4r(2r+1)(4t-1)\}  (r, t \geq 1),$$$\{135,\! 128,\! 16; 1,\! 16,\! 120\}$, $\{234,\! 165,\! 12; 1,\! 30,\! 198\}$ or $\{55,\! 54,\! 50,\! 35,\! 10; 1,\! 5,\! 20,\! 45,\! 55\}$. In all cases, the proofs rely on equality in the Krein condition, from which triple intersection numbers are determined. Further combinatorial arguments are then used to derive nonexistence. 


Author(s):  
Robert A. Beezer ◽  
E. J. Farrell

A distance-regular graph of diameterdhas2dintersection numbers that determine many properties of graph (e.g., its spectrum). We show that the first six coefficients of the matching polynomial of a distance-regular graph can also be determined from its intersection array, and that this is the maximum number of coefficients so determined. Also, the converse is true for distance-regular graphs of small diameter—that is, the intersection array of a distance-regular graph of diameter 3 or less can be determined from the matching polynomial of the graph.


10.37236/3356 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-pei Huang ◽  
Yeh-jong Pan ◽  
Chih-wen Weng

Let $\Gamma$ denote a distance-regular graph with diameter $D \geq 3$ and intersection numbers $a_1=0, a_2 \neq 0$, and $c_2=1$. We show a connection between the $d$-bounded property and the nonexistence of parallelograms of any length up to $d+1$. Assume further that $\Gamma$ is with classical parameters $(D, b, \alpha, \beta)$, Pan and Weng (2009) showed that $(b, \alpha, \beta)= (-2, -2, ((-2)^{D+1}-1)/3).$ Under the assumption $D \geq 4$, we exclude this class of graphs by an application of the above connection.


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