In [3] Cameron et al. classified strongly regular graphs with strongly regular subconstituents. Here we prove a theorem which implies that distance-regular graphs with strongly regular subconstituents are precisely the Taylor graphs and graphs with a1 = 0 and ai ∈ {0, 1} for i = 2, . . . , d .

A spin model is a square matrix that encodes the basic data for a statistical mechanical construction of link invariants due to V.F.R. Jones. Every spin model W is contained in a canonical Bose-Mesner algebra N (W ). In this paper we study the distance-regular graphs whose Bose-Mesner algebra M satisfies W ∈ M ⊆ N (W ). Suppose W has at least three distinct entries. We show that is 1-homogeneou...

We give a sufficient condition for a distance-regular graph to be Hamiltonian. In particular, the Petersen graph is the only connected nonHamiltonian strongly regular graph on fewer than 99 vertices.

Antipodal covers of strongly regular graphs which are not necessarily distance-regular are studied. The structure of short cycles in an antipodal cover is considered. In most cases, this provides a tool to determine if a strongly regular graph has an antipodal cover. In these cases, covers cannot be distance-regular except when they cover a complete bipartite graph. A relationship between antip...

Let be an antipodal distance-regular graph of diameter 4, with eigenvalues θ0 > θ1 > θ2 > θ3 > θ4. Then its Krein parameter q4 11 vanishes precisely when is tight in the sense of Jurišić, Koolen and Terwilliger, and furthermore, precisely when is locally strongly regular with nontrivial eigenvalues p := θ2 and −q := θ3. When this is the case, the intersection parameters of can be parametrized b...

We analyze when the Moore–Penrose inverse of the combinatorial Laplacian of a distance– regular graph is a M–matrix; that is, it has non–positive off–diagonal elements. In particular, our results include some previously known results on strongly regular graphs.

An important property of strongly regular graphs is that the second subconstituent of any primitive strongly regular graph is always connected. Brouwer asked to what extent this statement can be generalized to distanceregular graphs. In this paper, we show that if γ is any vertex of a distanceregular graph Γ and t is the index where the standard sequence corresponding to the second largest eige...

Let be a distance-regular graph of diameter d, valency k and r := max{i | (ci , bi ) = (c1, b1)}. Let q be an integer with r + 1 ≤ q ≤ d − 1. In this paper we prove the following results: Theorem 1 Suppose for any pair of vertices at distance q there exists a strongly closed subgraph of diameter q containing them. Then for any integer i with 1 ≤ i ≤ q and for any pair of vertices at distance i ...

In this paper, we introduce the notions of product vague graph, balanced product vague graph, irregularity and total irregularity of any irregular vague graphs and some results are presented. Also, density and balanced irregular vague graphs are discussed and some of their properties are established. Finally we give an application of vague digraphs.

the wiener index $w(g)$ of a connected graph $g$‎ ‎is defined as $w(g)=sum_{u,vin v(g)}d_g(u,v)$‎ ‎where $d_g(u,v)$ is the distance between the vertices $u$ and $v$ of‎ ‎$g$‎. ‎for $ssubseteq v(g)$‎, ‎the {it steiner distance/} $d(s)$ of‎ ‎the vertices of $s$ is the minimum size of a connected subgraph of‎ ‎$g$ whose vertex set is $s$‎. ‎the {it $k$-th steiner wiener index/}‎ ‎$sw_k(g)$ of $g$ ...