
Strongly Regular Graph
A-regularsimple graph
on
nodes is strongly
-regular if there exist positive integers
,
, and
such that every vertex has
neighbors (i.e., the graph is aregular graph), every adjacent pair of vertices has
common neighbors, and every nonadjacent pair has
common neighbors (West 2000, pp. 464-465). A graph that is not strongly regular is said to beweakly regular.
Adistance-regular graph withgraph diameter is a strongly regular graph (Biggs 1993, p. 159). Strongly regular graphs are thereforedistance-regular. Connected strongly regular graphs areconformally rigid (Steinerberger and Thomas 2024).
Thecomplete graph is strongly regular for all
. The status of the trivialsingleton graph
is unclear. Opinions differ on if
is a strongly regular graph, though since it has no well-defined
parameter, it is preferable to consider itnot to be strongly regular (A. E. Brouwer, pers. comm., Feb. 6, 2013).
Thegraph complement of a non-empty non-complete strongly regular graph with parameters is another strongly regular graph with parameters
.
A number of strongly regular graphs are implemented in theWolframLanguage asGraphData["StronglyRegular"].
The numbers of strongly regular graphs on, 2, ... nodes are 1, 1, 2, 4, 3, 6, 2, 6, 5, ... (OEISA076435), the first few of which are illustrated above. The smallestregular graphs that are not strongly regular are thecycle graph
andcirculant graph
.
Similarly, the numbers of connected strongly regular graphs on, 2, ... nodes are 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3, ... (OEISA088741).
Brouwer (2013) has conjectured that all connected strongly regular graphs (where is assumed tonot be strongly regular) areHamiltonian with the exception of thePetersen graph.
Other than the trivialsingleton graph and thecomplete bipartite graphs
, there are exactly seven known connectedtriangle-free strongly regular graphs, as summarized in the following table (Godsil 1995) and six of which are illustrated above. Determining the existence or absence of any others remains an open problem.
| graph | |
| 5 | 5-cycle graph |
| 10 | Petersen graph |
| 16 | Clebsch graph |
| 50 | Hoffman-Singleton graph |
| 56 | Gewirtz graph |
| 77 | M22 graph |
| 100 | Higman-Sims graph |
Examples of connected non-complete strongly regular graphs are given in the following table.
Strongly regular graphs with correspond to symmetric balanced incomplete block designs (West 2000, p. 465).
See also
Clebsch Graph,Conference Graph,Directed Strongly Regular Graph,Gewirtz Graph,Higman-Sims Graph,Hoffman-Singleton Graph,Regular Graph,Weakly Regular GraphExplore with Wolfram|Alpha

References
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