Combinatorica

, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp 53–59 | Cite as

Explicit construction of regular graphs without small cycles

  • Wilfried Imrich
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Abstract

For every integerd>2 we give an explicit construction of infinitely many Cayley graphsX of degreed withn(X) vertices and girth >0.4801...(logn(X))/log (d−1)−2. This improves a result of Margulis.

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05 C 35 05 C 38 05 C 25 20 E 05 
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© Akadémiai Kiadó 1984

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wilfried Imrich
    • 1
  1. 1.Institut für Mathematik und Angewandte GeometrieLeobenAustria

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