1. 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: 153; Downloads: 1
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2. Basic tetravalent oriented graphs of independent-cycle typeNemanja Poznanović, Cheryl E. Praeger, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: The family OG(4) consisting of graph-group pairs (Γ, G), where Γ is a finite, connected, 4-valent graph admitting a G-vertex-, and G-edge-transitive, but not G-arc-transitive action, has recently been examined using a normal quotient methodology. A subfamily of OG(4) has been identified as ‘basic’, due to the fact that all members of OG(4) are normal covers of at least one basic pair. We provide an explicit classification of those basic pairs (Γ, G) which have at least two independent cyclic G-normal quotients (these are G-normal quotients which are not extendable to a common cyclic normal quotient). Keywords: half-arc-transitive, vertex-transitive graph, edge-transitive graph, normal cover, cycle graph Published in RUP: 21.10.2025; Views: 168; Downloads: 1
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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: 2246; Downloads: 19
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4. 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: 2663; Downloads: 24
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5. 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: 2256; Downloads: 22
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6. A census of 4-valent half-arc-transitive graphs and arc-transitive digraphs of valence two : dedicated to Dragan Marušič on the occasion of his 60th birthdayPrimož Potočnik, Pablo Spiga, Gabriel Verret, 2015, original scientific article Abstract: A complete list of all connected arc-transitive asymmetric digraphs of in-valence and out-valence 2 on up to 1000 vertices is presented. As a byproduct, a complete list of all connected 4-valent graphs admitting a half-arc-transitive group of automorphisms on up to 1000 vertices is obtained. Several graph-theoretical properties of the elements of our census are calculated and discussed. Keywords: graphs, digraphs, edge-transitive, vertex-transitive, arc-transitive, half arc-transitive Published in RUP: 31.12.2021; Views: 2167; Downloads: 19
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