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What is and is not inside a Cayley graph?

Combinatorics 2025-10-08 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In this note we show that there is a cubic graph of girth 55 that is not a subgraph of any minimal Cayley graph. On the other hand, we show that any Generalized Petersen Graph G(n,k)G(n,k) with gcd(n,k)=1\gcd(n,k)=1 is an induced subgraph of a minimal Cayley graph. These results give insights into two comments of L\'aszl\'o Babai in [L. Babai, \emph{Automorphism groups, isomorphism, reconstruction}. Graham, R. L. (ed.) et al., Handbook of combinatorics. Vol. 1-2, 1994].

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@article{arxiv.2506.14088,
  title  = {What is and is not inside a Cayley graph?},
  author = {Kolja Knauer and Alvaro Soto Gomez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14088},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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