Cayley graphs on elementary abelian groups of extreme degree have complete cores

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author Rao, Guang
Tan, Colin
author_facet Rao, Guang
Tan, Colin
contents Nešetřil and Šámal asked whether every cubelike graph has a cubelike core. Mančinska, Pivotto, Roberson and Royle answered this question in the affirmative for cubelike graphs whose core has at most $32$ vertices. When the core of a cubelike graph has at most $16$ vertices, they gave a list of these cores, from which it follows that every cubelike graph with degree strictly less than $5$ has a complete core. We prove the following extension: if the degree of a cubelike graph is either strictly less than $5$ or at least $5$ less than the number of its vertices, then its core is complete and induced by a $\mathbb{F}_2$-vector subspace of its vertices. Thus we also answer Nešetřil and Šámal's question in the affirmative for cubelike graphs with degree at least $5$ less than the number of vertices. Our result is sharp as the $5$-regular folded $5$-cube and its graph complement are both non-complete cubelike graph cores. We also prove analogous results for Cayley graphs on elementary abelian $p$-groups for odd primes $p$.
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spellingShingle Cayley graphs on elementary abelian groups of extreme degree have complete cores
Rao, Guang
Tan, Colin
Combinatorics
Primary 05C50, 05C60, Secondary 20K25
Nešetřil and Šámal asked whether every cubelike graph has a cubelike core. Mančinska, Pivotto, Roberson and Royle answered this question in the affirmative for cubelike graphs whose core has at most $32$ vertices. When the core of a cubelike graph has at most $16$ vertices, they gave a list of these cores, from which it follows that every cubelike graph with degree strictly less than $5$ has a complete core. We prove the following extension: if the degree of a cubelike graph is either strictly less than $5$ or at least $5$ less than the number of its vertices, then its core is complete and induced by a $\mathbb{F}_2$-vector subspace of its vertices. Thus we also answer Nešetřil and Šámal's question in the affirmative for cubelike graphs with degree at least $5$ less than the number of vertices. Our result is sharp as the $5$-regular folded $5$-cube and its graph complement are both non-complete cubelike graph cores. We also prove analogous results for Cayley graphs on elementary abelian $p$-groups for odd primes $p$.
title Cayley graphs on elementary abelian groups of extreme degree have complete cores
topic Combinatorics
Primary 05C50, 05C60, Secondary 20K25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18297