Uniform Shared Neighborhood Structures in Edge-Regular Graphs

Abstract

A shared neighborhood structure (SNS) in a graph is a subgraph induced by the intersection of the open neighbor sets of two adjacent vertices. If a SNS is the same for all adjacent vertices in an edge-regular graph, call the SNS a uniform shared neighborhood structure (USNS). USNS-forbidden graphs (graphs which cannot be a USNS of an edge-regular graph) and USNS in graph products of edge-regular graphs are examined.