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Basic facts about expander graphs. (English) Zbl 1343.68182
Goldreich, Oded (ed.), Studies in complexity and cryptography. Miscellanea on the interplay between randomness and computation. In collaboration with Lidor Avigad, Mihir Bellare, Zvika Brakerski, Shafi Goldwasser, Shai Halevi, Tali Kaufman, Leonid Levin, Noam Nisan, Dana Ron, Madhu Sudan, Luca Trevisan, Salil Vadhan, Avi Wigderson, David Zuckerman. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-22669-4/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6650, 451-464 (2011).
Summary: In this survey we review basic facts regarding expander graphs that are most relevant to the theory of computation.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1220.68005].

##### MSC:
 68R10 Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science 05C75 Structural characterization of families of graphs 05C81 Random walks on graphs
##### Keywords:
expander graphs; random walks on graphs
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