Spectrum of twists of Cayley and Cayley sum graphs

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group with $|G|\geq 4$ and $S$ be a subset of $G$. Given an automorphism $\sigma$ of $G$, the twisted Cayley graph $C(G, S)^\sigma$ (resp. the twisted Cayley sum graph $C_\Sigma(G, S)^\sigma$) is defined as the graph having $G$ as its set of vertices and the adjacent vertices of a vertex $g\in G$ are of the form $\sigma(gs)$ (resp. $\sigma(g^{-1} s)$) for some $s\in S$. If the twisted Cayley graph $C(G, S)^\sigma$ is undirected and connected, then we prove that the nontrivial spectrum of its normalised adjacency operator is bounded away from $-1$ and this bound depends only on its degree, the order of $\sigma$ and the vertex Cheeger constant of $C(G, S)^\sigma$. Moreover, if the twisted Cayley sum graph $C_\Sigma(G, S)^\sigma$ is undirected and connected, then we prove that the nontrivial spectrum of its normalised adjacency operator is bounded away from $-1$ and this bound depends only on its degree and the vertex Cheeger constant of $C_\Sigma(G, S)^\sigma$. We also study these twisted graphs with respect to anti-automorphisms, and obtain similar results. Further, we prove an analogous result for the Schreier graphs satisfying certain conditions.