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Semisymmetric Graphs from Polytopes

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Every finite, self-dual, regular (or chiral) 4-polytope of type {3,q,3} has a trivalent 3-transitive (or 2-transitive) medial layer graph. Here, by dropping self-duality, we obtain a construction for semisymmetric trivalent graphs (which are edge- but not vertex-transitive). In particular, the Gray graph arises as the medial layer graph of a certain universal locally toroidal regular 4-polytope.

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@article{arxiv.math/0606469,
  title  = {Semisymmetric Graphs from Polytopes},
  author = {Barry Monson and Tomaz Pisanski and Egon Schulte and Asia Ivic Weiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0606469},
  year   = {2007}
}

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18 pages (to appear in Journal Combinatorial Theory, Series A)