Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4655772 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 2010 24 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider the Cayley graph on the symmetric group Sn generated by derangements. It is well known that the eigenvalues of this graph are indexed by partitions of n. We investigate how these eigenvalues are determined by the shape of their corresponding partitions. In particular, we show that the sign of an eigenvalue is the parity of the number of cells below the first row of the corresponding Ferrers diagram. We also provide some lower and upper bounds for the absolute values of these eigenvalues.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics