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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/BKMS.b160517

AN UPPER BOUND ON THE CHEEGER CONSTANT OF A DISTANCE-REGULAR GRAPH  

Kim, Gil Chun (Department of Mathematics Dong-A University)
Lee, Yoonjin (Department of Mathematics Ewha Womans University)
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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.54, no.2, 2017 , pp. 507-519 More about this Journal
Abstract
We present an upper bound on the Cheeger constant of a distance-regular graph. Recently, the authors found an upper bound on the Cheeger constant of distance-regular graph under a certain restriction in their previous work. Our new bound in the current paper is much better than the previous bound, and it is a general bound with no restriction. We point out that our bound is explicitly computable by using the valencies and the intersection matrix of a distance-regular graph. As a major tool, we use the discrete Green's function, which is defined as the inverse of ${\beta}$-Laplacian for some positive real number ${\beta}$. We present some examples of distance-regular graphs, where we compute our upper bound on their Cheeger constants.
Keywords
Green's function; Laplacian; P-polynomial scheme; distance-regular graph; Cheeger constant; Cheeger inequality;
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