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The Kneser graph $K(n,d)$ is the graph on the $d$-subsets of an $n$-set, adjacent when disjoint. Clearly, $K(n+d,d)$ is locally $K(n,d)$. Hall showed for $n \ge 3d+1$ that there are no further examples. Here we give other examples of locally $K(n,d)$ graphs for $n = 3d$, and some further sporadic examples. It follows that Hall's bound is best possible.
We survey the area of strongly regular graphs satisfying the 4-vertex condition and find several new families. We describe a switching operation on collinearity graphs of polar spaces that produces cospectral graphs. The obtained graphs satisfy the 4-vertex condition if the original graph belongs to a symplectic polar space.
It has been an open problem whether Hobart's inequality on the parameters of a quasisymmetric 2-design is independent of earlier known restrictions. In this note we show that it is equivalent to inequalities found by Neumaier and Calderbank. We also give some more parameter sets ruled out by the Blokhuis-Calderbank inequality.
Let the Kneser graph $K$ of a distance-regular graph $Γ$ be the graph on the same vertex set as $Γ$, where two vertices are adjacent when they have maximal distance in $Γ$. We study the situation where the Bose-Mesner algebra of $Γ$ is not generated by the adjacency matrix of $K$. In particular, we obtain strong results in the so-called `half antipodal' case.
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