Spectrum of Cayley graphs on the symmetric group generated by transpositions

Roi Krakovski, Bojan Mohar

Published 2012-01-10, updated 2012-04-29Version 2

For an integer $n\geq 2$, let $X_n$ be the Cayley graph on the symmetric group $S_n$ generated by the set of transpositions ${(1 2),(1 3),...,(1 n)}$. It is shown that the spectrum of $X_n$ contains all integers from $-(n-1)$ to $n-1$ (except 0 if $n=2$ or $n=3$).