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Perfect state transfer on Cayley graphs over dihedral groups: A complete and practical characterization

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 19 references
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This paper characterize the conjugation-closed connection sets of connected Cayley graphs over dihedral groups that admit perfect state transfer by applying Ramanujan sums, Mobius inversion, and arguments based on the rational numbers that yields a complete and practical characterization of these connection sets.

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Perfect state transfer on graphs has attracted extensive attention due to its application in quantum information and quantum computation. Explicit characterizations of connection sets admitting perfect state transfer in Cayley graphs are rare and, so far, are known only for a few abelian Cayley graphs. In this paper, we characterize the conjugation-closed connection sets of connected Cayley graphs over dihedral groups that admit perfect state transfer. By applying Ramanujan sums, M\"obius inversion, and arguments based on the $p$-adic exponential valuation of rational numbers, we convert the eigenvalue constraints imposed by perfect state transfer into explicit structural conditions on the connection set. This yields a complete and practical characterization, which gives an effective criterion for recognizing and constructing such Cayley graphs and also determines the exact minimum perfect state transfer time.

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