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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