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A class of highly symmetric Archdeacon embeddings

Combinatorics 2023-04-05 v2

Abstract

Archdeacon, in his seminal paper [1][1], defined the concept of Heffter array to provide explicit constructions of biembeddings of the complete graph KvK_v into orientable surfaces, the so-called Archdeacon embeddings, and proved that these embeddings are Zv\mathbb{Z}_{v}-regular. In this paper, we show that an Archdeacon embedding may admit an automorphism group that is strictly larger than Zv\mathbb{Z}_{v}. Indeed, as an application of the interesting class of arrays recently introduced by Buratti in [2][2], we exhibit, for infinitely many values of vv, an embedding of this type having full automorphism group of size (v2){v \choose 2} that is the largest possible one.

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@article{arxiv.2212.08491,
  title  = {A class of highly symmetric Archdeacon embeddings},
  author = {Simone Costa and Lorenzo Mella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08491},
  year   = {2023}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2205.02066