The Geometry of t-Cliques in k-Walk-Regular Graphs ∗

A graph is walk-regular if the number of cycles of length ℓ rooted at a given vertex is a constant through all the vertices. For a walk-regular graph G with d+1 different eigenvalues and spectrally maximum diameter D = d, we study the geometry of its d-cliques, that is, the sets of vertices which are mutually at distance d. When these vertices are projected onto an eigenspace of its adjacency matrix, we show that they form a regular tetrahedron and we compute its parameters. Moreover, the results are generalized to the case of k-walk-regular graphs, a family which includes both walk-regular and distance-regular graphs, and their t-cliques or vertices at distance t from each other.