Connectivity of Bi-Cayley Graphs

Xiaodong Liang1, Jixiang Meng1
1College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University Urumgi, Xinjiang 830046, People’s Republic of China

Abstract

Let \(G\) be a finite group and \(S\) be a subset (possibly containing the identity element) of \(G\). We define the Bi-Cayley graph \(X = BC(G, S)\) to be the bipartite graph with vertices \(G \times \{0, 1\}\) and edges \(\{(g, 0), (sg, 1) : g \in G, s \in S\}\). In this paper, we show that if \(X = BC(G, S)\) is connected, then \(\kappa(X) = \delta(X)\).