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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

On Distance-Regular Graphs with Height Two

Masato Tomiyama
Kyushu University Graduate School of Mathematics Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812 Japan

DOI: 10.1023/A:1022440414422

Abstract

Let max{ i: p di d \textonesuperior  0 } \max \left\{ {i:p_{di}^d \ne 0} \right\} . Suppose that for every agr in Gamma and beta in Gamma d( agr), the induced subgraph on Gamma d( agr) cap Gamma 2( beta) is a clique. Then Gamma is isomorphic to the Johnson graph J(8, 3).

Pages: 57–76

Keywords: distance-regular graph; strongly regular graph; height; clique; Johnson graph

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