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). By definition, it is a Cayley graph
of the additive group
whose connection set
consists of the vectors having at least one coordinate equal to
and at least two nonzero coordinates. This set is inverse-closed
because negation modulo
preserves both properties.
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
].