1. Answers to questions about medial layer graphs of self-dual regular and chiral polytopesMarston Conder, Isabelle Steinmann, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: An abstract n-polytope P is a partially-ordered set which captures important properties of a geometric polytope, for any dimension n. For even n ≥ 2, the incidences between elements in the middle two layers of the Hasse diagram of P give rise to the medial layer graph of P, denoted by G = G(P). If n = 4, and P is both highly symmetric and self-dual of type {p, q, p}, then a Cayley graph C covering G can be constructed on a group of polarities of P. In this paper we address some open questions about the relationship between G and C that were raised in a 2008 paper by Monson and Weiss, and describe some interesting examples of these graphs. In particular, we give the first known examples of improperly self-dual chiral polytopes of type {3, q, 3}, which are also among the very few known examples of highly symmetric self-dual finite polytopes that do not admit a polarity. Also we show that if p = 3 then C cannot have a higher degree of s-arc-transitivity than G, and we present a family of regular 4-polytopes of type {6, q, 6} for which the vertex-stabilisers in the automorphism group of C are larger than those for G.
Keywords: abstract polytope, regular polytope, chiral polytope, medial graph
Published in RUP: 16.09.2025; Views: 363; Downloads: 16
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2. A note on girth-diameter cagesGabriela Araujo-Pardo, Marston D. E. Conder, Natalia García-Colín, György Kiss, Dimitri Leemans, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: In this paper we introduce a problem closely related to the Cage Problem and the Degree Diameter Problem. For integers k ≥ 2, g ≥ 3 and d ≥ 1, we define a (k; g, d)-graph to be a k-regular graph with girth g and diameter d. We denote by n₀(k; g, d) the smallest possible order of such a graph, and, if such a graph exists, we call it a (k; g, d)-cage. In particular, we focus on (k; 5, 4)-graphs. We show that n₀(k; 5, 4) ≥ k² + k + 2 for all k, and report on the determination of all (k; 5, 4)-cages for k = 3, 4 and 5 and of examples with k = 6, and describe some examples of (k; 5, 4)-graphs which prove that n₀(k; 5, 4) ≤ 2k² for infinitely many k.
Keywords: cages, girth, degree-diameter problem
Published in RUP: 10.06.2025; Views: 760; Downloads: 15
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3. Vertex-transitive graphs and their arc-typesMarston D. E. Conder, Tomaž Pisanski, Arjana Žitnik, 2017, original scientific article Abstract: Let ▫$X$▫ be a finite vertex-transitive graph of valency ▫$d$▫, and let ▫$A$▫ be the full automorphism group of ▫$X$▫. Then the arc-type of ▫$X$▫ is defined in terms of the sizes of the orbits of the stabiliser ▫$A_v$▫ of a given vertex ▫$v$▫ on the set of arcs incident with ▫$v$▫. Such an orbit is said to be self-paired if it is contained in an orbit ▫$\Delta$▫ of ▫$A$▫ on the set of all arcs of v$X$▫ such that v$\Delta$▫ is closed under arc-reversal. The arc-type of ▫$X$▫ is then the partition of ▫$d$▫ as the sum ▫$n_1 + n_2 + \dots + n_t + (m_1 + m_1) + (m_2 + m_2) + \dots + (m_s + m_s)$▫, where ▫$n_1, n_2, \dots, n_t$▫ are the sizes of the self-paired orbits, and ▫$m_1,m_1, m_2,m_2, \dots, m_s,m_s$▫ are the sizes of the non-self-paired orbits, in descending order. In this paper, we find the arc-types of several families of graphs. Also we show that the arc-type of a Cartesian product of two "relatively prime" graphs is the natural sum of their arc-types. Then using these observations, we show that with the exception of ▫$1+1$▫ and ▫$(1+1)$▫, every partition as defined above is \emph{realisable}, in the sense that there exists at least one vertex-transitive graph with the given partition as its arc-type.
Keywords: symmetry type, vertex-transitive graph, arc-transitive graph, Cayley graph, cartesian product, covering graph
Published in RUP: 03.01.2022; Views: 3062; Downloads: 26
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4. Some recent discoveries about half-arc-transitive graphs : dedicated to Dragan Marušič on the occasion of his 60th birthdayMarston D. E. Conder, Primož Potočnik, Primož Šparl, 2015, original scientific article Abstract: We present some new discoveries about graphs that are half-arc-transitive (that is, vertex- and edge-transitive but not arc-transitive). These include the recent discovery of the smallest half-arc-transitive 4-valent graph with vertex-stabiliser of order 4, and the smallest with vertex-stabiliser of order 8, two new half-arc-transitive 4-valent graphs with dihedral vertex-stabiliser ▫$D_4$▫ (of order 8), and the first known half-arc-transitive 4-valent graph with vertex-stabiliser of order 16 that is neither abelian nor dihedral. We also use half-arc-transitive group actions to provide an answer to a recent question of Delorme about 2-arc-transitive digraphs that are not isomorphic to their reverse.
Keywords: graph, edge-transitive, vertex-transitive, arc-transitive, half arc-transitive
Published in RUP: 31.12.2021; Views: 2621; Downloads: 24
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