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On the generalised Saxl graphs of permutation groups

Group Theory 2026-01-30 v4

Abstract

A base for a finite permutation group GSym(Ω)G \le \mathrm{Sym}(\Omega) is a subset of Ω\Omega with trivial pointwise stabiliser in GG, and the base size of GG is the smallest size of a base for GG. 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 Ω\Omega, with edges between elements if they form a base for GG. We define a generalisation of this graph that encodes useful information about GG whenever b(G)2b(G) \ge 2: here, the edges are the pairs of elements of Ω\Omega that can be extended to bases of size b(G)b(G). 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.

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@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

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