Bang, S., Koolen, J. and Moulton, V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435
(2007)
Two theorems concerning the Bannai-Ito Conjecture.
European Journal of Combinatorics, 28 (7).
pp. 2026-2052.
ISSN 0195-6698
Abstract
In 1984 Bannai and Ito conjectured that there are finitely many distance-regular graphs with fixed valencies greater than two. In a series of papers, they showed that this is the case for valency 3 and 4, and also for the class of bipartite distance-regular graphs. To prove their result, they used a theorem concerning the intersection array of a triangle-free distance-regular graph, a theorem that was subsequently generalized in 1994 by Suzuki to distance-regular graphs whose intersection numbers satisfy a certain simple condition. More recently, Koolen and Moulton derived a more general version of Bannai and Ito’s theorem which they used to show that the Bannai–Ito conjecture holds for valencies 5, 6 and 7, and which they subsequently extended to triangle-free distance-regular graphs in order to show that the Bannai–Ito conjecture holds for such graphs with valencies 8, 9 and 10. In this paper, we extend the theorems of Bannai and Ito, and Koolen and Moulton to arbitrary distance-regular graphs.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences |
Depositing User: | Vishal Gautam |
Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2011 13:09 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2023 09:30 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/22725 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejc.2006.08.009 |
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