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Brussels Graph


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The Brussels graph is the name given on the House of Graphs website to the quintic edge-girth-regular graph egr(32,5,5,12) constructed by Araujo-Pardo and Leemans (2022). It is illustrated above in a number of bilaterally symmetric LCF embeddings.

Though not mentioned by Araujo-Pardo and Leemans (2022), the Brussels graph is isomoprhic to one of the two graphs that are cospectral with the Wells graph (E. Weisstein, Nov. 6, 2025). In particular, as described by van Dam and Haemers (2002), it can be constructed from the Wells graph by removing an edge xy and its antipodal edge x^'y^' (i.e., the edge whose vertices are at graph distance 4 from the original edge vertices x and y) and adding new edges xx^' and yy^'.

BrusselsGraphAlmostUnitDistanceEmbeddings

The Brussels graph satisfies the rhombus constraints and contains no known unit-distance forbidden subgraph, yet appears not to be a unit-distance. A number of embeddings found from different initial embeddings by minimizing the sum of square deviations from unit edge lengths until a local minimum was reached are illustrated above.


See also

Cospectral Graphs, Quintic Graph, Wells Graph

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References

Araujo-Pardo, G. and Leemans, D. "Edge-Girth-Regular Graphs Arising From Biaffine Planes and Suzuki Groups." Disc. Math. 345, 112991, 2022.House of Graphs. "Brussels Graph." https://houseofgraphs.org/graphs/50460.van Dam, E. R. and Haemers, W. H. "Spectral Characterizations of Some Distance-Regular Graphs." J. Algebraic Combin. 15, 189-202, 2002.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Brussels Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BrusselsGraph.html

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