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Arc-transitive pentavalent Cayley graphs with soluble vertex stabilizer on finite nonabelian simple groups

Combinatorics 2017-02-21 v1

Abstract

A Cayley graph \Ga=\Cay(G,S)\Ga=\Cay(G,S) is said to be normal if GG is normal in \Aut\Ga\Aut\Ga. The concept of normal Cayley graphs was first proposed by M.Y.Xu in [Discrete Math. 182, 309-319, 1998] and it plays an important role in determining the full automorphism groups of Cayley graphs. In this paper, we investigate the normality problem of the connected arc-transitive pentavalent Cayley graphs with soluble vertex stabilizer on finite nonabelian simple groups. We prove that all such graphs \Ga\Ga are either normal or G=\A39G=\A_{39} or \A79\A_{79}. Further, a connected arc-transitive pentavalent Cayley graph on \A79\A_{79} is constructed. To our knowledge, this is the first known example of pentavalent 3-arc-transitive Cayley graph on finite nonabelian simple group which is non-normal.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05754,
  title  = {Arc-transitive pentavalent Cayley graphs with soluble vertex stabilizer on finite nonabelian simple groups},
  author = {Bo Ling and Ben Gong Lou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05754},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages