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Nut graphs with a prescribed number of vertex and edge orbits

Combinatorics 2026-01-26 v1

Abstract

A nut graph is a nontrivial graph whose adjacency matrix has a one-dimensional null space spanned by a vector without zero entries. Recently, it was shown that a nut graph has more edge orbits than vertex orbits. It was also shown that for any even r2r \ge 2 and any kr+1k \ge r + 1, there exist infinitely many nut graphs with rr vertex orbits and kk edge orbits. Here, we extend this result by finding all the pairs (r,k)(r, k) for which there exists a nut graph with rr vertex orbits and kk edge orbits. In particular, we show that for any k2k \ge 2, there are infinitely many Cayley nut graphs with kk edge orbits and kk arc orbits.

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@article{arxiv.2502.20201,
  title  = {Nut graphs with a prescribed number of vertex and edge orbits},
  author = {Nino Bašić and Ivan Damnjanović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20201},
  year   = {2026}
}