A generalized Keller graph has as its vertices the -tuples over the integers 0, 1, ...,
. Two vertices are adjacent if they differ by exactly
in at least one coordinate and differ in at least two coordinates (Brakensiek et
al. 2022).
The generalized Keller graph with parameters and
is denoted
, or
after the notation
of Łysakowska (2023). Its vertex set therefore
has
elements. The ordinary
-dimensional Keller graph
is the special case
.
Special cases, including the natural boundary cases with or
, are summarized in the following table.
| graph | |
| ladder rung graph | |
| Clebsch graph | |
For ,
generalized Keller graphs are vertex-transitive
and regular, with vertex
degree
.
Their chromatic number is
, and their independence
number is
for
.
In addition, Łysakowska (2023) proved that all generalized Keller graphs are
Hamiltonian and class
1.
Corrádi and Szabó (1990) introduced the graphs to give a convenient finite graph-theoretic formulation
of Keller's conjecture, translating the search
for face-sharing-free periodic cube tilings into a clique problem. A clique in
has size at most
, and one attaining this bound gives a face-sharing-free
tiling of
-dimensional
space. It therefore disproves Keller's conjecture
in dimension
and all higher dimensions. Łysakowska (2023) later used the term generalized
Keller graph for the family and studied its graph-theoretic properties.
For the remaining seven-dimensional case, Brakensiek et al. (2022) encoded the clique search as a satisfiability problem
and used symmetry breaking to prove that none of ,
, and
contains a clique of size 128. This settled Keller's
conjecture by proving it in dimension seven.
Generalized Keller graphs will be implemented in a future version of the Wolfram Language as GraphData["GeneralizedKeller",
n,
s
].