Title
Ramanujan Complexes and Bounded Degree Topological Expanders
Abstract
Expander graphs have been a focus of attention in computer science in the last four decades. In recent years a high dimensional theory of expanders is emerging. There are several possible generalizations of the theory of expansion to simplicial complexes, among them stand out coboundary expansion and topological expanders. It is known that for every d there are unbounded degree simplicial complexes of dimension d with these properties. However, a major open problem, formulated by Gromov, is whether bounded degree high dimensional expanders, according to these definitions, exist for d ≥ 2. We present an explicit construction of bounded degree complexes of dimension d = 2 which are high dimensional expanders. More precisely, our main result says that the 2-skeletons of the 3-dimensional Ramanujan complexes are topological expanders. Assuming a conjecture of Serre on the congruence subgroup property, infinitely many of them are also coboundary expanders.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/FOCS.2014.58
Foundations of Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
graph theory,group theory,3-dimensional Ramanujan complexes,bounded degree complexes,bounded degree high dimensional expanders,bounded degree topological expanders,coboundary expansion,computer science,congruence subgroup property,expander graphs,high dimensional theory,topological expanders,Ramanujan complexes,high dimensional expanders,topological expanders,topological overlapping
Graph theory,Discrete mathematics,Topology,Combinatorics,Open problem,Expander graph,Ramanujan's sum,Generalization,Congruence subgroup,Conjecture,Mathematics,Bounded function
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1408.6351
0272-5428
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tali Kaufman149938.33
David Kazhdan2201.88
Alexander Lubotzky323143.47