2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Explicit Expanding Expanders
verfasst von : Michael Dinitz, Michael Schapira, Asaf Valadarsky
Erschienen in: Algorithms - ESA 2015
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Deterministic constructions of expander graphs have been an important topic of research in computer science and mathematics, with many well-studied constructions of infinite families of expanders. In some applications, though, an infinite family is not enough: we need expanders which are “close” to each other. We study the following question: Construct an an infinite sequence of expanders
G
0
,
G
1
,…, such that for every two consecutive graphs
G
i
and
G
i
+ 1
,
G
i
+ 1
can be obtained from
G
i
by adding a single vertex and inserting/removing a small number of edges, which we call the
expansion cost
of transitioning from
G
i
to
G
i
+ 1
. This question is very natural, e.g., in the context of datacenter networks, where the vertices represent racks of servers, and the expansion cost captures the amount of rewiring needed when adding another rack to the network. We present an
explicit
construction of
d
-regular expanders with expansion cost at most
$\frac{5d}{2}$
, for any
d
≥ 6. Our construction leverages the notion of a “2-lift” of a graph. This operation was first analyzed by Bilu and Linial [1], who repeatedly applied 2-lifts to construct an infinite family of expanders which double in size from one expander to the next. Our construction can be viewed as a way to “interpolate” between Bilu-Linial expanders with low expansion cost while preserving good edge expansion throughout.