Two-graphs

  • The files that appear below can be regarded as updated versions of some of the tables that appeared in [1]. The additional material concerns two-graphs on 10 vertices and regular two-graphs on 36, 46 and 50 vertices. For full details of the references involved the reader is referred to the author's chapter in [2].
  • The files two-graph.04, two-graph.05, two-graph.06, two-graph.07, two-graph.08, two-graph.09 (132Kb) and two-graph.10 (2.4Mb), contain tables of two-graphs on 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 vertices, respectively. The format of the tables is the same as that referred to above [1]. However, since these tables were generated by the author independently there is not an exact correspondence between the graphs in the tables. Occasionally I have listed graphs complementary to those of [1]. Each row comprises the upper half of the (+,-) adjacency of a descendant (with its first row deleted), the eigenvalues, the order of the automorphism group, the number of graphs in the switching class, and if a two-graph is self-complementary this is denoted by the letter S.

  • Alternatively, you may wish to download all these graphs as a gzipped tar file two-graph.tar.gz, which is around 500K.
  • The further files reg2graph.06, reg2graph.10, reg2graph.14, reg2graph.16, reg2graph.18, reg2graph.26, reg2graph.28, reg2graph.30, reg2graph.36, reg2graph.38, reg2graph.42, reg2graph.46 and reg2graph.50, as their titles suggest, contain all regular two-graphs on at most 50 vertices that are known to me at this time. Again the format mimics that of [1]. Here each two-graph is identified with the hexadecimal form of its greatest descendant, where the ordering involved is the natural one obtained by expressing as a hexadecimal number the binary integer obtained by concatenating the rows of the upper triangular part of the adjacency matrix. I also list the order of its automorphism group, and the orbits under the action of this group. In addition, I include the numbers of strongly regular graphs that are obtained either as descendants of the regular two-graph or, where appropriate, in its switching class. The strongly regular graphs are identified by their parameters which comprise the number of vertices and the eigenvalues of their Seidel Spectrum. This is simply the spectrum of its (-,+) adjacency matrix. The notation [x,y] means that there are x graphs with automorphism group of order y.

    Perhaps the updated files concerning regular two-graphs on 36, 46 and 50 vertices need some explanation. There are now 227 known regular two-graphs on 36 vertices [5], Mathon [6] found 17 self-complementary strongly regular graphs on 45 vertices that give rise to the same number of self-complementary regular two-graphs on 46 vertices, and the additional work [3], [4] and [7] increased the known number of regular two-graphs on 50 vertices to 54 (6 self-complementary and 24 complementary pairs).

  • Many of the these files were compiled with the help of Rudi Mathon and Frans Bussemaker. I am grateful to them both for their invaluable assistance.
    1. [1] F.C. Bussemaker, R. A. Mathon , J.J. Seidel, "Tables of Two-graphs", Technical Report 79-WSK-05, Technical University of Eindhoven
    2. [2] E.Spence, "Two-Graphs" in: CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs, (C.J. Colbourne and J.H. Dinitz, eds) pp 686-695
    3. [3] E.S. Kramer, S.S. Magliveras and R. Mathon, The Steiner systems S(2,4,25) with non-trivial automorphism group, Discrete Math. 77 (1989), 137-157.
    4. [4] E. Spence, The complete classification of Steiner systems S(2,4,25), Journ. Comb. Designs, 4 (1996), no. 4, 295-300.
    5. [5] E. Spence, Regular two-graphs on 36 vertices, Lin. Alg. Appl. 226-228 (1995), 459-497.
    6. [6] R, Mathon, On self-complementary strongly regular graphs, Discrete Math. 69 (1988), 263-281.
    7. [7] E. Spence, Unpublished computer result, 1995