Before revision:  Additionally, we use our techniques to prove NP-hardness of computing the spread constant (of a graph) \emph{  , a geometric measure  introduced by Alon, Boppana, and Spencer, in the context of deriving an asymptotic isoperimetric inequality on cartesian products of graphs.
After revision:  Additionally, we use our techniques to prove NP-hardness of computing the spread constant (of a graph) \emph{spread constant , a geometric measure introduced by Alon, Boppana, and Spencer, in the context of deriving an asymptotic isoperimetric inequality on cartesian products of graphs.