A note on a Cayley graph of S_n

arXiv1202.4976MaRDI QIDQ6231192FDOQ6231192

Authors: Guillaume Chapuy, Valentin Féray 

Publication date: 22 February 2012

Abstract: Recently in graph theory several authors have studied the spectrum of the Cayley graph of the symmetric group S_n generated by the transpositions (1, i) for 2 <= i <= n. Several conjectures were made and partial results were obtained. The purpose of this note is to point out that, as mentioned also by P. Renteln, this problem is actually already solved in another context. Indeed it is equivalent to studying the spectrum of so-called Jucys-Murphy elements in the algebra of the symmetric group, which is well understood. The aforementioned conjectures are direct consequences of the existing theory. We also present a related result from P. Biane, giving an asymptotic description of this spectrum. We insist on the fact that this note does not contain any new results, but has only been written to convey the information from the algebraic combinatorics community to graph theorists.

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