On Moore graphs with diameters 2 and 3

  • Authors:
  • A. J. Hoffman;R. R. Singleton

  • Affiliations:
  • General Electric Company, New York, NY;General Electric Company, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • IBM Journal of Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 1960

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Abstract

This note treats the existence of connected, undirected graphs homogeneous of degree d and of diameter k, having a number of nodes which is maximal according to a certain definition. For k = 2 unique graphs exist for d = 2, 3, 7 and possibly for d = 57 (which is undecided), but for no other degree. For k = 3 a graph exists only for d = 2. The proof exploits the characteristic roots and vectors of the adjacency matrix (and its principal submatrices) of the graph.