On the generalised Saxl graphs of permutation groups
Abstract
A base for a finite permutation group is a subset of with trivial pointwise stabiliser in , and the base size of is the smallest size of a base for . Motivated by the interest in groups of base size two, Burness and Giudici introduced the notion of the Saxl graph. This graph has vertex set , with edges between elements if they form a base for . We define a generalisation of this graph that encodes useful information about whenever : here, the edges are the pairs of elements of that can be extended to bases of size . In particular, for primitive groups, we investigate the completeness and arc-transitivity of the generalised graph, and the generalisation of Burness and Giudici's Common Neighbour Conjecture on the original Saxl graph.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.22613,
title = {On the generalised Saxl graphs of permutation groups},
author = {Saul D. Freedman and Hong Yi Huang and Melissa Lee and Kamilla Rekvényi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22613},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
36 pages. Corrected the statement of Lemma 4.4, and incorporated referee comments. To appear in Algebraic Combinatorics