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Canonical double covers of circulants

Combinatorics 2022-01-11 v1

Abstract

The canonical double cover B(X)B(X) of a graph XX is the direct product of XX and K2K_2. If Aut(B(X))Aut(X)×Z2Aut(B(X)) \cong Aut(X) \times \mathbb{Z}_2 then XX is called stable; otherwise XX is called unstable. An unstable graph is nontrivially unstable if it is connected, non-bipartite and distinct vertices have different neighborhoods. Circulant is a Cayley graph on a cyclic group. Qin et al. conjectured in [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 136 (2019), 154-169] that there are no nontrivialy unstable circulants of odd order. In this paper we prove this conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2006.12826,
  title  = {Canonical double covers of circulants},
  author = {Blas Fernandez and Ademir Hujdurović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12826},
  year   = {2022}
}

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