Rational-temperature walk-regularity conjecture

Let GG be a simple graph, let nGn_G be its number of vertices, and let SV(G,β)S^V(G,\beta) denote its walk entropy at temperature β0\beta\geq0. The graph GG is walk-regular when every vertex is contained in the same number of closed walks of every length. Rational-temperature conjecture. A graph GG is walk-regular if and only if there exists a rational β>0\beta>0 such that

SV(G,β)=lognG.S^V(G,\beta)=\log n_G.

The preceding result shows that a non-walk-regular graph can attain maximum walk entropy at only finitely many positive temperatures, while the source offers this rational-temperature strengthening as a further conjecture.

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Kyle Kloster, Daniel Král' and Blair D. Sullivan, “Walk entropy and walk-regularity”, arXiv:1708.09700 (2018).

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