A combinatorial construction of almost-Ramanujan graphs using the zig-zag product

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 325-334

  Ben Aroya, Avraham ^a   Ta Shma, Amnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Expander graphs; Zig zag product

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GRAPH THEORY;

EXPANDER GRAPHS; GRAPH PRODUCT; LARGE GRAPHS; OPTIMAL SPECTRAL GAP; RAMANUJAN GRAPHS; REGULAR GRAPHS; SPECTRAL GAP; ZIG-ZAG PRODUCT;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 57049084701     PISSN: 07378017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1374376.1374424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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