The symmetry ratio of a network

  • Authors:
  • Anthony H. Dekker;Bernard Colbert

  • Affiliations:
  • Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Canberra, Australia;Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • CATS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian symposium on Theory of computing - Volume 41
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new measure of symmetry which we call the symmetry ratio of a network, defined to be the ratio of the number of distinct eigenvalues of the network to D+1, where D is the diameter. The symmetry ratio has utility in partially predicting the robustness of a network in the face of attack. We prove a number of results placing bounds on the symmetry ratio for several families of networks, including distance-transitive networks, prisms, twisted prisms, antiprisms, tori, Cayley graphs, and random graphs.