On the spectral distributions of distance-k graph of free product graphs

Abstract

We calculate the distribution with respect to the vacuum state of the distance-$k$ graph of a $d$-regular tree. From this result we show that the distance-$k$ graph of a $d$-regular graphs converges to the distribution of the distance-$k$ graph of a regular tree. Finally, we prove that, properly normalized, the asymptotic distributions of distance-$k$ graphs of the $d$-fold free product graph, as $d$ tends to infinity, is given by the distribution of $P_k(s)$, where $s$ is a semicircle random variable and $P_k$ is the $k$-th Chebychev polynomial.