‎we investigate two constructions‎ - ‎the replacement and the zig-zag‎ ‎product of graphs‎ - ‎describing several fascinating connections‎ ‎with combinatorics‎, ‎via the notion of expander graph‎, ‎group‎ ‎theory‎, ‎via the notion of semidirect product and cayley graph‎, ‎and‎ ‎with markov chains‎, ‎via the lamplighter random walk‎. ‎many examples‎ ‎are provided‎.

Let Γ be an abelian group and B be a subset of Γ. The addition Cayley graph G′ = Cay(Γ, B) is the graph having the vertex set V (G′) = Γ and the edge set E(G′) = {ab : a + b ∈ B}, where a, b ∈ Γ. For a positive integer n > 1, the unitary addition Cayley graph Gn is the graph whose vertex set is Zn, the integers modulo n and if Un denotes set of all units of the ring Zn, then two vertices a, b a...

Cycle is one of the most fundamental graph classes. For a given graph, it is interesting to find cycles of various lengths as subgraphs in the graph. The Cayley graph Cay(Sn, S) on the symmetric group has an important role for the study of Cayley graphs as interconnection networks. In this paper, we show that the Cayley graph generated by a transposition set is vertex-bipancyclic if and only if...

for two normal edge-transitive cayley graphs on groups h and k which have no common direct factor and gcd(jh=h ′j; jz(k)j) = 1 = gcd(jk=k ′j; jz(h)j), we consider four standard products of them and it is proved that only tensor product of factors can be normal edge-transitive.

Let G be a non-trivial group, S ⊆ G \ {1} and S = S−1 := {s−1 | s ∈ S}. The Cayley graph of G denoted by Γ(S : G) is a graph with vertex set G and two vertices a and b are adjacent if ab−1 ∈ S. A graph is called integral, if its adjacency eigenvalues are integers. In this paper we determine all connected cubic integral Cayley graphs. We also introduce some infinite families of connected integra...

For a group T and a subset S of T , the bi-Cayley graph BCay(T, S) of T with respect to S is the bipartite graph with vertex set T×{0, 1} and edge set {{(g, 0), (sg, 1)} | g ∈ T, s ∈ S}. In this paper, we investigate cubic bi-Cayley graphs of finite nonabelian simple groups. We give several sufficient or necessary conditions for a bi-Cayley graph to be semisymmetric, and construct several infin...

Nathanson was the pioneer in introducing the concepts of Number Theory, particularly, the “Theory of Congruences” in Graph Theory, thus paved the way for the emergence of a new class of graphs, namely “Arithmetic Graphs”. Cayley graphs are another class of graphs associated with the elements of a group. If this group is associated with some arithmetic function then the Cayley graph becomes an A...

An automorphism α of a Cayley graph Cay(G,S) of a group G with connection set S is color-preserving if α(g, gs) = (h, hs) or (h, hs−1) for every edge (g, gs) ∈ E(Cay(G,S)). If every color-preserving automorphism of Cay(G,S) is also affine, then Cay(G,S) is a CCA (Cayley color automorphism) graph. If every Cayley graph Cay(G,S) is a CCA graph, then G is a CCA group. Hujdurović, Kutnar, D.W. Morr...

Let Γ be a finite, additive group, S ⊆ Γ, 0 6∈ S, − S = {−s : s ∈ S} = S. The undirected Cayley graph Cay(Γ, S) has vertex set Γ and edge set {{a, b} : a, b ∈ Γ, a − b ∈ S}. A graph is called integral, if all of its eigenvalues are integers. For an abelian group Γ we show that Cay(Γ, S) is integral, if S belongs to the Boolean algebra B(Γ) generated by the subgroups of Γ. The converse is proven...

We show that almost every Cayley graph Γ of an abelian group G of odd prime-power order has automorphism group as small as possible. Additionally, we show that almost every Cayley (di)graph Γ of an abelian group G of odd prime-power order that does not have automorphism group as small as possible is a normal Cayley (di)graph of G (that is, GL/Aut(Γ)).