Graphs with Minimum Algebraic Connectivity II: Regular Graphs of Even Degree
Aldous and Fill (2002) conjectured the asymptotic maximum relaxation time of a random walk on a connected regular graph. Since the relaxation time of a $d$-regular graph $G$ is $d/\mu(G)$, where $\mu(G)$ denotes its algebraic connectivity, this conjecture is closely related to the problem of minimizing algebraic connec...