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Classification of 2-extendable bipartite and cubic non-bipartite vertex-transitive graphs

Combinatorics 2016-12-12 v1

Abstract

In \cite{Chan95}, the authors classified the 2-extendable abelian Cayley graphs and posed the problem of characterizing all 2-extendable Cayley graphs. We first show that a connected bipartite Cayley (vertex-transitive) graph is 2-extendable if and only if it is not a cycle. It is known that a non-bipartite Cayley (vertex-transitive) graph is 2-extendable when it is of minimum degree at least five \cite{sun}. We next classify all 2-extendable cubic non-bipartite Cayley graphs and obtain that: a cubic non-bipartite Cayley graph with girth gg is 2-extendable if and only if g4g\geq 4 and it doesn't isomorphic to Z4n(1,4n1,2n)Z_{4n}(1,4n-1,2n) or Z4n+2(2,4n,2n+1)Z_{4n+2}(2,4n,2n+1) with n2n\geq 2. Indeed, we prove a more stronger result that a cubic non-bipartite vertex-transitive graph with girth gg is 2-extendable if and only if g4g\geq 4 and it doesn't isomorphic to Z4n(1,4n1,2n)Z_{4n}(1,4n-1,2n) or Z4n+2(2,4n,2n+1)Z_{4n+2}(2,4n,2n+1) with n2n\geq 2 or the Petersen graph.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02988,
  title  = {Classification of 2-extendable bipartite and cubic non-bipartite vertex-transitive graphs},
  author = {Qiuli Li and Xing Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02988},
  year   = {2016}
}