Andrásfai graph

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Short description: Family of triangle-free circulant graphs
Andrásfai graph
Andrásfai graph And(6).svg
Named afterBéla Andrásfai
Vertices[math]\displaystyle{ 3n-1 }[/math]
Edges[math]\displaystyle{ \frac{n(3n-1)}{2} }[/math]
Diameter2
PropertiesTriangle-free
Circulant
NotationAnd(n)
Table of graphs and parameters
Two drawings of the And(4) graph

In graph theory, an Andrásfai graph is a triangle-free, circulant graph named after Béla Andrásfai.

Properties

The Andrásfai graph And(n) for any natural number n ≥ 1 is a circulant graph on 3n – 1 vertices, in which vertex k is connected by an edge to vertices k ± j, for every j that is congruent to 1 mod 3. For instance, the Wagner graph is an Andrásfai graph, the graph And(3).

The graph family is triangle-free, and And(n) has an independence number of n. From this the formula R(3,n) ≥ 3(n – 1) results, where R(n,k) is the Ramsey number. The equality holds for n = 3 and n = 4 only.

The Andrásfai graphs were later generalized.[1][2]


References

  1. A. Das, S. Biswas, M. Saha: Generalized Andrásfai Graphs, Discussiones Mathematicae – General Algebra and Applications 42(2) (2022) 449–462
  2. W. Bedenknecht, G. O. Mota, Ch. Reiher, M. Schacht, On the local density problem for graphs of given odd-girth, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 62, 2017, pp. 39-44.

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