On bipartite distance-regular Cayley graphs with small diameter (Q2138568)

Summary: We study bipartite distance-regular Cayley graphs with diameter three or four. We give sufficient conditions under which a bipartite Cayley graph can be constructed on the semidirect product of a group -- the part of this bipartite Cayley graph which contains the identity element -- and \(\mathbb{Z}_2\). We apply this to the case of bipartite distance-regular Cayley graphs with diameter three, and consider cases where the sufficient conditions are not satisfied for some specific groups such as the dihedral group. We also extend a result by \textit{Š. Miklavič} and \textit{P. Potočnik} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 97, No. 1, 14--33 (2007; Zbl 1107.05102)] that relates difference sets to bipartite distance-regular Cayley graphs with diameter three to the case of diameter four. This new case involves certain partial geometric difference sets and -- in the antipodal case -- relative difference sets.