Classification of 2-extendable bipartite and cubic non-bipartite vertex-transitive graphs
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 is 2-extendable if and only if and it doesn't isomorphic to or with . Indeed, we prove a more stronger result that a cubic non-bipartite vertex-transitive graph with girth is 2-extendable if and only if and it doesn't isomorphic to or with 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}
}