On the strong regularity of some edge-regular graphs

The author studies undirected regular graphs such that each edge belongs to exactly \(\lambda\) triangles, the so-called edge-regular graphs. Examples are strongly regular graphs. In the book of \textit{A. E. Brouwer}, \textit{A. M. Cohen} and \textit{A. Neumaier} [Distance-regular graphs (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 3. Folge, Springer, Berlin etc.) (1989; Zbl 0747.05073)] it is proved that a connected edge-regular graph on \(v\) vertices and of degree \(k\) is strongly regular, if \(\lambda\geq k+{1\over 2}- \sqrt{2k+2}\). In the frame of this theorem the author conjectures that a connected edge-regular graph with parameters \((v, k,\lambda)\) satisfying \(\lambda> k -\sqrt{2k + 1}\) is strongly regular except for a concrete list of graphs. The main result of the paper is that the conjecture becomes true under the stronger assumption that \(\lambda\geq k+ 1/2- \sqrt{2k+8}\).

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