A spread of a strongly regular graph is a partition of the vertex set into cliques that meet Delsarte's bound (also called Hoffman's bound). Such spreads give rise to colorings meeting Hoffman's lower bound for the chromatic number and to certain imprimitive three-class association schemes. These correspondences lead to conditions for existence. Most examples come from spreads and fans in (part...

We consider strongly regular graphs r = (V, E) on an even number, say 2n, of vertices which admit an automorphism group G of order n which has two orbits on V. Such graphs will be called strongly regular semi-Cayley graphs. For instance, the Petersen graph, the Hoffman-Singleton graph, and the triangular graphs T(q) with q = 5 mod 8 provide examples which cannot be obtained as Cayley graphs. We...

We consider strongly regular graphs defined on a finite field by taking the union of some cyclotomic classes as difference set. Several new examples are found.

In this paper, we examine the structure of vertexand edge-transitive strongly regular graphs, using normal quotient reduction. We show that the irreducible graphs in this family have quasiprimitive automorphism groups, and prove (using the Classification of Finite Simple Groups) that no graph in this family has a holomorphic simple automorphism group. We also find some constraints on the parame...

Using results on Hadamard difference sets, we construct regular graphical Hadamard matrices of negative type of order 4m for every positive integer m. If m > 1, such a Hadamard matrix is equivalent to a strongly regular graph with parameters (4m, 2m +m, m +m, m +m). Strongly regular graphs with these parameters have been called max energy graphs, because they have maximal energy (as defined by ...

A resolving set for a graph Γ is a collection of vertices S, chosen so that for each vertex v, the list of distances from v to the members of S uniquely specifies v. The metric dimension of Γ is the smallest size of a resolving set for Γ. A graph is distance-regular if, for any two vertices u, v at each distance i, the number of neighbours of v at each possible distance from u (i.e. i−1, i or i...

Let Γ denote a D-bounded distance-regular graph, where D ≥ 3 is the diameter of Γ. For 0 ≤ s ≤ D − 3 and a weak-geodetically closed subgraph ∆ of Γ with diameter s, define a graph G(∆) whose vertex set is the collection of all weak-geodetically closed subgraphs of diameter s+2 containing ∆, and vertex Ω is adjacent to vertex Ω′ in G if and only if Ω∩Ω′ as a subgraph of Γ has diameter s+1. We sh...

In this paper we give a lower bound for the least distortion embedding of a distance regular graph into Euclidean space. We use the lower bound for finding the least distortion for Hamming graphs, Johnson graphs, and all strongly regular graphs. Our technique involves semidefinite programming and exploiting the algebra structure of the optimization problem so that the question of finding a lowe...