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Definition

Let be a group and be a generating set for . The Cayley graph of with respect to is defined as follows:

  • The vertex set of the graph is .
  • Given two distinct vertices , there is an edge joining to if and only if is in .

We typically consider the Cayley graph for a finitely generated group and a finite generating set of the group. Further, we can assume without loss of generality that is a symmetric subset of -- the inverse of any element of is also in .