Interlacing families IV: Bipartite Ramanujan graphs of all sizes

Adam W. Marcus, Daniel A. Spielman, Nikhil Srivastava

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Abstract

We prove that there exist bipartite Ramanujan graphs of every degree and every number of vertices. The proof is based on an analysis of the expected characteristic polynomial of a union of random perfect matchings and involves three ingredients: (1) a formula for the expected characteristic polynomial of the sum of a regular graph with a random permutation of another regular graph, (2) a proof that this expected polynomial is real-rooted and that the family of polynomials considered in this sum is an interlacing family, and (3) strong bounds on the roots of the expected characteristic polynomial of a union of random perfect matchings, established using the framework of finite free convolutions introduced recently by the authors.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2488-2509
Number of pages22
JournalSIAM Journal on Computing
Volume47
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

Keywords

  • Expander graphs
  • Free probability
  • Interlacing
  • Random graphs
  • Random matrices

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