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Paper   IPM / M / 18134
School of Mathematics
  Title:   On the Regular Sets in Cayley Graphs
  Author(s):  Zeinab Akhlaghi (Joint with Y. Khaefi and Beh. Khosravi)
  Status:   To Appear
  Journal: J. Algebraic Combin.
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
A subset $C$ of the vertex set of a graph $\Gamma$ is said to be $(a,b)$-regular if $C$ induces an $a$-regular subgraph and every vertex outside $C$ is adjacent to exactly $b$ vertices in $C$. In particular, if $C$ is an $(a,b)$-regular set of some Cayley graph on a finite group $G$, then $C$ is called an $(a,b)$-regular set of $G$ and a $(0,1)$-regular set is called a perfect code of $G$. In [Wang, Xia and Zhou, Regular sets in Cayley graphs, J. Algebr. Comb., 2023] it is proved that if $H$ is a normal subgroup of $G$, then $H$ is a perfect code of $G$ if and only if it is an $(a,b)$-regular set of $G$, for each $0\leq a\leq|H|-1$ and $0\leq b\leq|H|$ with $\gcd(2,|H|-1)\mid a$. In this paper, we generalize this result and show that a subgroup $H$ of $G$ is a perfect code of $G$ if and only if it is an $(a,b)$-regular set of $G$, for each $0\leq a\leq|H|-1$ and $0\leq b\leq|H|$ such that $\gcd(2,|H|-1)$ divides $a$. Also, in [J. Zhang, Y. Zhu, A note on regular sets in Cayley graphs, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc., 2024] it is proved that if $H$ is a normal subgroup of $G$, then $H$ is an $(a,b)$-regular set of $G$, for each $0\leq a\leq|H|-1$ and $0\leq b\leq|H|$ such that $\gcd(2,|H|-1)$ divides $a$ and $b$ is even. We extend this result and we prove that the normality condition is not needed.

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