On a cheeger type inequality in Cayley graphs of finite groups

Abstract

Let $G$ be a finite group. It was remarked by Breuillard-Green-Guralnick-Tao that if the Cayley graph $C(G,S)$ is an expander graph and is non-bipartite then the spectrum of the adjacency operator $T$ is bounded away from $-1$. In this article we are interested in explicit bounds for the spectrum of these graphs. Specifically, we show that the non-trivial spectrum of the adjacency operator lies in the interval $\left[-1+\frac{h(\mathbb{G}{)}^4}{\gamma },1-\frac{h(\mathbb{G}{)}^2}{2d^2}\right]$, where $h(\mathbb{G})$ denotes the (vertex) Cheeger constant of the $d$ regular graph $C(G,S)$ with respect to a symmetric set $S$ of generators and $\gamma =2^9{d}^6(d+1{)}^2$.

Final version, to appear in the European Journal of Combinatorics