1. Platonic configurations of points and linesJurij Kovič, Aleksander Simonič, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: We present some methods for constructing connected spatial geometric configurations (p_q, n_k) of points and lines, preserved by the same isometries of Euclidean space E³ as the predetermined Platonic solid. In this paper, we are mainly interested in configurations (n₃), (n₄), and (n₅), but also in unbalanced configurations (p₃, n₄), (p₃, n₅), and (p₄, n₅).
Keywords: configuration of points and lines, symmetry group, Platonic solid, centrally symmetric solid, projection from a point
Published in RUP: 22.12.2025; Views: 222; Downloads: 1
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2. Bounding s for vertex-primitive s-arc-transitive digraphs of alternating and symmetric groupsJunyan Chen, Lei Chen, Michael Giudici, Jing Jian Li, Cheryl E. Praeger, Binzhou Xia, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: Determining an upper bound on s for finite vertex-primitive s-arc-transitive digraphs has received considerable attention dating back to a question of Praeger in 1990. It was shown by Giudici and Xia that the smallest upper bound on s is attained for some digraph admitting an almost simple s-arc-transitive group. In this paper, based on the work of Pan, Wu and Yin, we prove that s<=2 in the case where the group is an alternating or symmetric group.
Keywords: digraph, vertex-primitive, s-arc-transitive, alternating group, symmetric group
Published in RUP: 22.10.2025; Views: 384; Downloads: 3
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3. Linking rings structures and semisymmetric graphs : combinatorial constructionsPrimož Potočnik, Steve Wilson, 2018, original scientific article Keywords: graphs, automorphism group, symmetry, locally arc-transitive graphs, symmetric graphs, cycle structure, linking ring structure
Published in RUP: 03.01.2022; Views: 2524; Downloads: 21
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5. Odd extensions of transitive groups via symmetric graphs - The cubic caseKlavdija Kutnar, Dragan Marušič, 2018, original scientific article Abstract: When dealing with symmetry properties of mathematical objects, one of the fundamental questions is to determine their full automorphism group. In this paper this question is considered in the context of even/odd permutations dichotomy. More precisely: when is it that the existence of automorphisms acting as even permutations on the vertex set of a graph, called even automorphisms, forces the existence of automorphisms that act as odd permutations, called odd automorphisms. As a first step towards resolving the above question, complete information on the existence of odd automorphisms in cubic symmetric graphs is given.
Keywords: automorphism group, arc-transitive, even permutation, odd permutation, cubic symmetric graph
Published in RUP: 19.11.2018; Views: 3912; Downloads: 212
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8. On 2-fold covers of graphsYan-Quan Feng, Klavdija Kutnar, Aleksander Malnič, Dragan Marušič, 2008, original scientific article Abstract: A regular covering projection ▫$\wp : \widetilde{X} \to X$▫ of connected graphs is ▫$G$▫-admissible if ▫$G$▫ lifts along ▫$\wp$▫. Denote by ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ the lifted group, and let CT▫$(\wp)$▫ be the group of covering transformations. The projection is called ▫$G$▫-split whenever the extension ▫{$\mathrm{CT}}(\wp) \to \tilde{G} \to G$▫ splits. In this paper, split 2-covers are considered, with a particular emphasis given to cubic symmetric graphs. Supposing that ▫$G$▫ is transitive on ▫$X$▫, a ▫$G$▫-split cover is said to be ▫$G$▫-split-transitive if all complements ▫$\tilde{G} \cong G$▫ of CT▫$(\wp)$▫ within ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ are transitive on ▫$\widetilde{X}$▫; it is said to be ▫$G$▫-split-sectional whenever for each complement ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ there exists a ▫$\tilde{G}$▫-invariant section of ▫$\wp$▫; and it is called ▫$G$▫-split-mixed otherwise. It is shown, when ▫$G$▫ is an arc-transitive group, split-sectional and split-mixed 2-covers lead to canonical double covers. Split-transitive covers, however, are considerably more difficult to analyze. For cubic symmetric graphs split 2-cover are necessarily canonical double covers (that is, no ▫$G$▫-split-transitive 2-covers exist) when ▫$G$▫ is 1-regular or 4-regular. In all other cases, that is, if ▫$G$▫ is ▫$s$▫-regular, ▫$s=2,3$▫ or ▫$5$▫, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a transitive complement ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ is given, and moreover, an infinite family of split-transitive 2-covers based on the alternating groups of the form ▫$A_{12k+10}$▫ is constructed. Finally, chains of consecutive 2-covers, along which an arc-transitive group ▫$G$▫ has successive lifts, are also considered. It is proved that in such a chain, at most two projections can be split. Further, it is shown that, in the context of cubic symmetric graphs, if exactly two of them are split, then one is split-transitive and the other one is either split-sectional or split-mixed.
Keywords: graph theory, graphs, cubic graphs, symmetric graphs, ▫$s$▫-regular group, regular covering projection
Published in RUP: 15.10.2013; Views: 6205; Downloads: 41
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