Cores of cubelike graphs

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2020.103092zbMATH Open1439.05159arXiv1808.02051OpenAlexW3013357684MaRDI QIDQ2178667FDOQ2178667

Authors: L. Mančinska, Irene Pivotto, David Roberson, Gordon Royle 

Publication date: 11 May 2020

Published in: European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A graph is $extitcubelike$ if it is a Cayley graph for some elementary abelian $2$-group $mathbb{Z}_2^n$. The core of a graph is its smallest subgraph to which it admits a homomorphism. More than ten years ago, Nev{s}etv{r}il and v{S}'amal (On tension-continuous mappings. $extitEuropeanJ.Combin.,$ 29(4):1025--1054, 2008) asked whether the core of a cubelike graph is cubelike, but since then very little progress has been made towards resolving the question. Here we investigate the structure of the core of a cubelike graph, deducing a variety of structural, spectral and group-theoretical properties that the core "inherits" from the host cubelike graph. These properties constrain the structure of the core quite severely --- even if the core of a cubelike graph is not actually cubelike, it must bear a very close resemblance to a cubelike graph. Moreover we prove the much stronger result that not only are these properties inherited by the core of a cubelike graph, but also by the orbital graphs of the core. Even though the core and its orbital graphs look very much like cubelike graphs, we are unable to show that this is sufficient to characterise cubelike graphs. However, our results are strong enough to eliminate all non-cubelike vertex-transitive graphs on up to $32$ vertices as potential cores of cubelike graphs (of any size). Thus, if one exists at all, a cubelike graph with a non-cubelike core has at least $128$ vertices and its core has at least $64$ vertices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02051

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isomorphism problems in graph theory (reconstruction conjecture, etc.) and homomorphisms (subgraph embedding, etc.) (05C60) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25)

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Uses Software

• Digraphs

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