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Finite groups admitting a regular tournament $m$-semiregular representation

Group Theory 2025-02-10 v2

Abstract

For a positive integer mm, a finite group GG is said to admit a tournament mm-semiregular representation (TmSR for short) if there exists a tournament Γ\Gamma such that the automorphism group of Γ\Gamma is isomorphic to GG and acts semiregularly on the vertex set of Γ\Gamma with mm orbits. Clearly, every finite group of even order does not admit a TmSR for any positive integer mm, and T1SR is the well-known tournament regular representation (TRR for short). In 1986, Godsil \cite{god} proved, by a probabilistic approach, that the only finite groups of odd order without a TRR are Z32\mathbb{Z}_3^2 and Z33\mathbb{Z}_3^3 . More recently, Du \cite{du} proved that every finite group of odd order has a TmSR for every m2m \geq 2. The author of \cite{du} observed that a finite group of odd order has no regular TmSR when mm is an even integer, a group of order 11 has no regular T3SR, and Z32\mathbb{Z}_3^2 admits a regular T3SR. At the end of \cite{du}, Du proposed the following problem. \noindent{\sf\it Problem.} \ \ {\it For every odd integer m3m\geq 3, classify finite groups of odd order which have a regular TmSR.} The motivation of this paper is to give an answer for the above problem. We proved that if GG is a finite group with odd order n>1n>1, then GG admits a regular TmSR for any odd integer m3m\geq 3.

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@article{arxiv.2501.13406,
  title  = {Finite groups admitting a regular tournament $m$-semiregular representation},
  author = {Dein Wong and Songnian Xu and Chi Zhang and Jinxing Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13406},
  year   = {2025}
}
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