Title: Subconstituents of Drackns
| Speaker: | Maxwell Levit |
| Affiliation: | Simon Fraser University |
| Location: | Please contact Sabrina Lato for Zoom link. |
Abstract: For a distance-regular graph X and an arbitrary vertex v, we often find interesting structure in the subgraph of X induced on vertices at distance 2 from v.
For example:
Any strongly-regular graph with parameters (n,k,a,k/2) can be found at distance 2 from a vertex in a distance-regular graph of diameter 3.
Certain distance-regular graphs of diameter 3 can be found at distance 2 from a vertex in a Moore graph of girth 5.
These (and more) examples are known as second-subconstituents, and they can be studied using the Terwilliger (or subconstituent) algebra of X. I will discuss this theory in the case that X is a distance-regular antipodal cover of a complete graph (drackn). This setting generalizes the first example and includes the second.
I will describe some general techniques for studying the Terwilliger algebras of drackns and then restrict to drackns without triangles. In this setting I will explain how to compute the spectrum of the second-subconstituent of any triangle-free drackn, except possibly the second-subconstituent OF a second-subconstituent of a Moore graph of valency 57.