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Trudy Inst. Mat. i Mekh. UrO RAN, 2022 Volume 28, Number 1, Pages 199–208 (Mi timm1891)

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Inverse Problems in the Class of Distance-Regular Graphs of Diameter $4$

A. A. Makhnevab, D. V. Paduchikha

a N.N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg
b Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg

Abstract: For a distance-regular graph $\Gamma$ of diameter 4, the graph $\Delta=\Gamma_{1,2}$ can be strongly regular. In this case, the graph $\Gamma_{3,4}$ is strongly regular and complementary to $\Delta$. Finding the intersection array of $\Gamma$ from the parameters of $\Gamma_{3,4}$ is an inverse problem. In the present paper, the inverse problem is solved in the case of an antipodal graph $\Gamma$ of diameter $4$. In this case, $r=2$ and $\Gamma_{3,4}$ is a strongly regular graph without triangles. Further, $\Gamma$ is an $AT4(p,q,r)$-graph only in the case $q=p+2$ and $r=2$. Earlier the authors proved that an $AT4(p,p+2,2)$-graph does not exist. A Krein graph is a strongly regular graph without triangles for which the equality in the Krein bound is attained (equivalently, $q^2_{22}=0$). A Krein graph $\mathrm{Kre}(r)$ with the second eigenvalue $r$ has parameters $((r^2+3r)^2,r^3+3r^2+r,0,r^2+r)$. For the graph $\mathrm{Kre}(r)$, the antineighborhood of a vertex is strongly regular with parameters $((r^2+2r-1)(r^2+3r+1),r^3+2r^2,0,r^2)$ and the intersection of the antineighborhoods of two adjacent vertices is strongly regularly with parameters $((r^2+2r)(r^2+2r-1),r^3+r^2-r,$ $0,r^2-r)$. Let $\Gamma$ be an antipodal graph of diameter 4, and let $\Delta=\Gamma_{3,4}$ be a strongly regular graph without triangles. In this paper it is proved that $\Delta$ cannot be a graph with parameters $((r^2+2r-1)(r^2+3r+1),r^3+2r^2,0,r^2)$, and if $\Delta$ is a graph with parameters $((r^2+2r)(r^2+2r-1),r^3+r^2-r,0,r^2-r)$, then $r>3$. It is proved that a distance-regular graph with intersection array $\{32,27,12(r-1)/r,1;1, 12/r,27,32\}$ exists only for $r=3$, and, for a graph with array $\{96,75,32(r-1)/r,1;1,32/r,75,96\}$, we have $r=2$.

Keywords: distance-regular graph, antipodal graph, graph $\Gamma$ with strongly regular graph $\Gamma_{i,j}$.

UDC: 519.17

MSC: 05E30, 05C50

Received: 14.10.2021
Revised: 19.01.2022
Accepted: 24.01.2022

DOI: 10.21538/0134-4889-2022-28-1-199-208


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Supplementary issues), 2022, 317, suppl. 1, S121–S129

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