1. Automorphisms and quotients of 2-colored quasi best match graphsAnnachiara Korchmaros, 2026, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: 2-colored quasi best match graphs (2-qBMGs) are directed graphs that arose in evolution theory. Investigations of 2-qBMGs have mostly focused on computational issues. However, 2-qBMGs also have relevant properties for structural graph theory; in particular, their undirected underlying graph is free from induced paths and cycles of size at least 6. In this paper, results on the structure of the automorphism groups of 2-qBMGs are obtained, which shows how to construct 2-qBMGs with large automorphism groups.
Ključne besede: group of automorphisms, bipartite graphs, phylogenetics
Objavljeno v RUP: 05.01.2026; Ogledov: 185; Prenosov: 1
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2. Coverings of general digraphsAleksander Malnič, Boris Zgrablić, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: A unified theory of covering projections of graphs and digraphs is presented as one theory by considering coverings of general digraphs, where multiple directed and undirected edges together with oriented and unoriented loops and semiedges, are allowed. It transpires that coverings of general digraphs can display certain pathological behaviour since the naturally defined projections of their underlying graphs may not be coverings in the usual topological sense. Consequently, homotopy does not always lift, although the unique walk lifting property still holds. Yet, it is still possible to grasp such coverings algebraically in terms of the action of the fundamental monoid. This action is permutational and has certain nice properties that monoid actions in general do not have. As a consequence, such projections can be studied combinatorially in terms of voltages. The problem of isomorphism and equivalence, and in particular, the problem of lifting automorphisms, is treated in depth. All known results about covering projections of graphs are simple corollaries of just three general theorems.
Ključne besede: mixed graph, general digraph, dart, covering projection, voltage, homotopy, monoid action, lifting automorphisms
Objavljeno v RUP: 10.09.2025; Ogledov: 486; Prenosov: 17
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3. On cubic vertex-transitive graphs of given girthEdward Tauscher Dobson, Ademir Hujdurović, Wilfried Imrich, Ronald Ortner, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: A set of vertices of a graph is distinguishing if the only automorphism that preserves it is the identity. The minimal size of such sets, if they exist, is the distinguishing cost. The distinguishing costs of vertex transitive cubic graphs are well known if they are 1-arc-transitive, or if they have two edge orbits and either have girth 3 or vertex-stabilizers of order 1 or 2. There are many results about vertex-transitive cubic graphs of girth 4 with two edge orbits, but for larger girth almost nothing is known about the distinguishing costs of such graphs. We prove that cubic vertex-transitive graphs of girth 5 with two edge orbits have distinguishing cost 2, and prove the non-existence of infinite 3-arc-transitive cubic graphs of girth 6.
Ključne besede: distinguishing number, distinguishing cost, vertex-transitive cubic graphs, automorphisms
Objavljeno v RUP: 27.08.2025; Ogledov: 685; Prenosov: 4
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5. Testing whether the lifted group splitsRok Požar, 2016, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Let a group of automorphisms lift along a regular covering projection of connected graphs given combinatorially by means of voltages. The data that determine the lifted group and its action are then conveniently encoded in terms of voltages as well. Along these lines, an algorithm for testing whether the lifted group is a split extension of the group of covering transformations has recently been proposed in the case when the group of covering transformations is solvable. It consists of decomposing the covering into a series of coverings with elementary abelian groups of covering transformations, and inductively solving the problem at every elementary abelian step. Although the explicit construction of the lifted group is not needed, it still involves time and space consuming constructions of certain subgroups in the lifted group at every step except at the final one. In this paper, an improved version that completely avoids such constructions is presented. From voltage distribution we first compute the weak action and the factor set that determine the lifted group, and we then carry out the test by extracting the necessary information only from the corresponding weak actions and factor sets at every step. An experimental comparison is made against the previous version.
Ključne besede: algorithm, graph, group extension, lifting automorphisms, regular covering projection, voltages
Objavljeno v RUP: 03.01.2022; Ogledov: 2264; Prenosov: 37
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6. Sectional split extensions arising from lifts of groupsRok Požar, 2013, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Covering techniques have recently emerged as an effective tool used for classification of several infinite families of connected symmetric graphs. One commonly encountered technique is based on the concept of lifting groups of automorphisms along regular covering projections ▫$\wp \colon \tilde{X} \to X$▫. Efficient computational methods are known for regular covers with cyclic or elementary abelian group of covering transformations CT▫$(\wp)$▫. In this paper we consider the lifting problem with an additional condition on how a group should lift: given a connected graph ▫$X$▫ and a group ▫$G$▫ of its automorphisms, find all connected regular covering projections ▫$\wp \colon \tilde{X} \to X$▫ along which ▫$G$▫ lifts as a sectional split extension. By this we mean that there exists a complement ▫$\overline{G}$▫ of CT▫$(\wp)$▫ within the lifted group ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ such that ▫$\overline{G}$▫ has an orbit intersecting each fibre in at most one vertex. As an application, all connected elementary abelian regular coverings of the complete graph ▫$K_4$▫ along which a cyclic group of order 4 lifts as a sectional split extension are constructed.
Ključne besede: covering projection, graph, group extension, lifting automorphisms, voltage assignment
Objavljeno v RUP: 31.12.2021; Ogledov: 2513; Prenosov: 5
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7. On split liftings with sectional complementsAleksander Malnič, Rok Požar, 2018, izvirni znanstveni članek Ključne besede: algorithm, Cayley voltages, covering projection, graph, group presentation, invariant section, lifting automorphisms, linear systems over the integers, split extension
Objavljeno v RUP: 02.03.2018; Ogledov: 4924; Prenosov: 181
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8. Semisymmetric elementary abelian covers of the Möbius-Kantor graphAleksander Malnič, Dragan Marušič, Štefko Miklavič, Primož Potočnik, 2007, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Let ▫$\wp_N : \tilde{X} \to X$▫ be a regular covering projection of connected graphs with the group of covering transformations isomorphic to ▫$N$▫. If ▫$N$▫ is an elementary abelian ▫$p$▫-group, then the projection ▫$\wp_N$▫ is called ▫$p$▫-elementary abelian. The projection ▫$\wp_N$▫ is vertex-transitive (edge-transitive) if some vertex-transitive (edge-transitive) subgroup of Aut ▫$X$▫ lifts along ▫$\wp_N$▫, and semisymmetric if it is edge- but not vertex-transitive. The projection ▫$\wp_N$▫ is minimal semisymmetric if ▫$\wp_N$▫ cannot be written as a composition ▫$\wp_N = \wp \circ \wp_M$▫ of two (nontrivial) regular covering projections, where ▫$\pw_M$▫ is semisymmetric. Finding elementary abelian covering projections can be grasped combinatorially via a linear representation of automorphisms acting on the first homology group of the graph. The method essentially reduces to finding invariant subspaces of matrix groups over prime fields (see [A. Malnic, D. Marušic, P. Potocnik, Elementary abelian covers of graphs, J. Algebraic Combin. 20 (2004) 71-97]). In this paper, all pairwise nonisomorphic minimal semisymmetric elementary abelian regular covering projections of the Möbius-Kantor graph, the Generalized Petersen graph GP(8,3), are constructed. No such covers exist for ▫$p=2$▫. Otherwise, the number of such covering projections is equal to ▫$(p-1)/4$▫ and ▫$1+(p-1)/4$▫ in cases ▫$p \equiv 5,9,13,17,21 \pmod{24}$▫ and ▫$p \equiv 1 \pmod{24}$▫, respectively, and to ▫$(p+1)/4$▫ and ▫$1+(p+1)/4$▫ in cases ▫$p \equiv 3,7,11,15,23 \pmod{24}$▫ and ▫$p \equiv 19 \pmod{24}$▫, respectively. For each such covering projection the voltage rules generating the corresponding covers are displayed explicitly.
Ključne besede: mathematics, graph theory, graph, covering projection, lifting automorphisms, homology group, group representation, matrix group, invariant subspaces
Objavljeno v RUP: 03.04.2017; Ogledov: 3759; Prenosov: 97
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9. On the split structure of lifted groupsAleksander Malnič, Rok Požar, 2016, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Let ▫$\wp \colon \tilde{X} \to X$▫ be a regular covering projection of connected graphs with the group of covering transformations ▫$\rm{CT}_\wp$▫ being abelian. Assuming that a group of automorphisms ▫$G \le \rm{Aut} X$▫ lifts along $\wp$ to a group ▫$\tilde{G} \le \rm{Aut} \tilde{X}$▫, the problem whether the corresponding exact sequence ▫$\rm{id} \to \rm{CT}_\wp \to \tilde{G} \to G \to \rm{id}$▫ splits is analyzed in detail in terms of a Cayley voltage assignment that reconstructs the projection up to equivalence. In the above combinatorial setting the extension is given only implicitly: neither ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ nor the action ▫$G\to \rm{Aut} \rm{CT}_\wp$▫ nor a 2-cocycle ▫$G \times G \to \rm{CT}_\wp$▫, are given. Explicitly constructing the cover ▫$\tilde{X}$▫ together with ▫$\rm{CT}_\wp$▫ and ▫$\tilde{G}$▫ as permutation groups on ▫$\tilde{X}$▫ is time and space consuming whenever ▫$\rm{CT}_\wp$▫ is large; thus, using the implemented algorithms (for instance, HasComplement in Magma) is far from optimal. Instead, we show that the minimal required information about the action and the 2-cocycle can be effectively decoded directly from voltages (without explicitly constructing the cover and the lifted group); one could then use the standard method by reducing the problem to solving a linear system of equations over the integers. However, along these lines we here take a slightly different approach which even does not require any knowledge of cohomology. Time and space complexity are formally analyzed whenever ▫$\rm{CT}_\wp$▫ is elementary abelian.
Ključne besede: algorithm, abelian cover, Cayley voltages, covering projection, graph, group extension, group presentation, lifting automorphisms, linear systems over the integers, semidirect product
Objavljeno v RUP: 15.10.2015; Ogledov: 4398; Prenosov: 170
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