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Edge-transitivity of Cayley graphs generated by transpositions
Let be a set of transpositions generating the symmetric group . The
transposition graph of is defined to be the graph with vertex set
, and with vertices and being adjacent in
whenever . In the present note, it is proved that two
transposition graphs are isomorphic if and only if the corresponding two Cayley
graphs are isomorphic. It is also proved that the transposition graph is
edge-transitive if and only if the Cayley graph is
edge-transitive
Diameter of Cayley graphs of permutation groups generated by transposition trees
Let be a Cayley graph of the permutation group generated by a
transposition tree on vertices. In an oft-cited paper
\cite{Akers:Krishnamurthy:1989} (see also \cite{Hahn:Sabidussi:1997}), it is
shown that the diameter of the Cayley graph is bounded as
\diam(\Gamma) \le \max_{\pi \in S_n}{c(\pi)-n+\sum_{i=1}^n
\dist_T(i,\pi(i))}, where the maximization is over all permutations ,
denotes the number of cycles in , and \dist_T is the distance
function in . In this work, we first assess the performance (the sharpness
and strictness) of this upper bound. We show that the upper bound is sharp for
all trees of maximum diameter and also for all trees of minimum diameter, and
we exhibit some families of trees for which the bound is strict. We then show
that for every , there exists a tree on vertices, such that the
difference between the upper bound and the true diameter value is at least
.
Observe that evaluating this upper bound requires on the order of (times
a polynomial) computations. We provide an algorithm that obtains an estimate of
the diameter, but which requires only on the order of (polynomial in)
computations; furthermore, the value obtained by our algorithm is less than or
equal to the previously known diameter upper bound. This result is possible
because our algorithm works directly with the transposition tree on
vertices and does not require examining any of the permutations (only the proof
requires examining the permutations). For all families of trees examined so
far, the value computed by our algorithm happens to also be an upper
bound on the diameter, i.e.
\diam(\Gamma) \le \beta \le \max_{\pi \in S_n}{c(\pi)-n+\sum_{i=1}^n
\dist_T(i,\pi(i))}.Comment: This is an extension of arXiv:1106.535
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