A comparison technique for random walks on finite graphs is introduced, using the well-known interlacing method. It yields improved return probability bounds. A key feature is the incorporation of parts of the spectrum of the transition matrix other than just the principal eigenvalue. As an application, an upper bound of the expected return probability of a random walk with symmetric transition...

A cubic graph G is S-edge-colorable for a Steiner triple system S if its edges can be colored with points of S in such a way that the points assigned to three edges Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 29 (2007) 23–27 1571-0653/$ – see front matter © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. www.elsevier.com/locate/endm doi:10.1016/j.endm.2007.07.005 sharing a vertex form a triple in S. We sh...

The vertex-edge Wiener polynomials of a simple connected graph are defined based on the distances between vertices and edges of that graph. The first derivative of these polynomials at one are called the vertex-edge Wiener indices. In this paper, we express some basic properties of the first and second vertex-edge Wiener polynomials of simple connected graphs and compare the first and second ve...

It is shown that every connected vertex-transitive graph of order 4p, where p is a prime, is hamiltonian with the exception of the Coxeter graph which is known to possess a Hamilton path. In 1969, Lovász [22] asked if every finite, connected vertex-transitive graph has a Hamilton path, that is, a path going through all vertices of the graph. With the exception of K 2 , only four connected verte...

Since decades transitive graphs are a topic of great interest. The study of s-edge transitive (undirected) graphs goes back to Tutte [13], who showed that finite cubic graphs cannot be s-edge transitive for s> 5. Weiss [14] proved several years later that the only finite connected s-edge transitive graphs with s = 8 are the cycles. Considering directed graphs the situation is much more involved...

The theory of vertex-transitive graphs has developed in parallel with the theory of transitive permutation groups. In this chapter we explore some of the ways the two theories have influenced each other. On the one hand each finite transitive permutation group corresponds to several vertex-transitive graphs, namely the generalised orbital graphs which we shall discuss below. On the other hand, ...

For a fixed k, an oriented graph is k-transitive if it is acyclic and for every directed path p=u1→u2→...→uk+2 with k+2 vertices, p induces a clique if each of the two subpaths u1→u2→...→uk+1 and u2→...→uk+2 induces a clique. We describe an algorithm to find a maximum weight clique in a k-transitive graph. Consider a hereditary family G of graphs. A graph H(V,E) is called G-k-mixed if its edge ...

‎Let G=(V(G),E(G)) be a simple connected graph with vertex set V(G) and edge‎ ‎set E(G)‎. ‎The (first) edge-hyper Wiener index of the graph G is defined as‎: ‎$$WW_{e}(G)=sum_{{f,g}subseteq E(G)}(d_{e}(f,g|G)+d_{e}^{2}(f,g|G))=frac{1}{2}sum_{fin E(G)}(d_{e}(f|G)+d^{2}_{e}(f|G)),$$‎ ‎where de(f,g|G) denotes the distance between the edges f=xy and g=uv in E(G) and de(f|G)=∑g€(G)de(f,g|G). ‎In thi...

A classi cation of all arc transitive graphs of order a product of two primes is given Furthermore it is shown that cycles and complete graphs are the only arc transitive Cayley graph of abelian group of odd order Introductory remarks Throughout this paper graphs are nite simple and undirected By p and q we shall always denote prime numbers A k arc in a graph X is a sequence of k vertices v v v...

A graph is textit{symmetric}, if its automorphism group is transitive on the set of its arcs. In this paper, we  classifyall the connected cubic symmetric  graphs of order $36p$  and $36p^{2}$, for each prime $p$, of which the proof depends on the classification of finite simple groups.