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We investigate properties which ensure that a given finite graph is the commuting graph of a group or semigroup. We show that all graphs on at least two vertices such that no vertex is adjacent to all other vertices is the commuting graph…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Michael Giudici , Bojan Kuzma

In this paper we investigate orders, longest cycles and the number of cycles of automorphisms of finite vertex-transitive graphs. In particular, we show that the order of every automorphism of a connected vertex-transitive graph with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Primoz Potocnik , Micael Toledo , Gabriel Verret

We prove a few results about non-nilpotent graphs of symmetric groups $S_n$ -- namely that they have a Hamiltonian cycle and they satisfy a conjecture of Nongsiang and Saikia. The latter is likewise proven for alternating groups $A_n$. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Radosław Żak

We classify non-complete prime valency graphs satisfying the property that their automorphism group is transitive on both the set of arcs and the set of $2$-geodesics. We prove that either $\Gamma$ is 2-arc transitive or the valency $p$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Alice Devillers , Wei Jin , Cai Heng Li , Cheryl E. Praeger

We study $2$-dimensional unit vector flows on graphs, that is, nowhere-zero flows that assign to each oriented edge a unit vector in $\mathbb R^{3}$. We give a new geometric characterization of $\mathbb S^{2}$-flows on cubic graphs. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Hussein Houdrouge , Bobby Miraftab , Pat Morin

We classify trivalent vertex-transitive graphs whose edge sets have a partition into a 2-factor composed of two cycles and a 1-factor that is invariant under the action of the automorphism group.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Brian Alspach , Ted Dobson , Afsaneh Khodadadpour , Primoz Šparl

The aim of this work is studying translating graphs by mean curvature flow in $\Real^3$. We prove non-existence of complete translating graphs over bounded domains in $\Real^2$. Furthermore, we show that there are only three types of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Leili Shahriyari

It is a longstanding conjecture that every simple drawing of a complete graph on $n \geq 3$ vertices contains a crossing-free Hamiltonian cycle. We strengthen this conjecture to "there exists a crossing-free Hamiltonian path between each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Oswin Aichholzer , Joachim Orthaber , Birgit Vogtenhuber

We consider a finite, connected and simple graph $\Gamma$ that admits a vertex-transitive group of automorphisms $G$. Under the assumption that, for all $x \in V(\Gamma)$, the local action $G_x^{\Gamma(x)}$ is the action of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Luke Morgan

Let $S,T$ be two distinct finite Abelian groups with $|S|=|T|$. A fundamental theorem of Tutte shows that a graph admits a nowhere-zero $S$-flow if and only if it admits a nowhere-zero $T$-flow. Jaeger, Linial, Payan and Tarsi in 1992…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Miaomiao Han , Jiaao Li , Xueliang Li , Meiling Wang

Given a $2$-$(v,k,\lambda)$ design, $\cal{S}=(X,\cal{B})$, a {\it zero-sum $n$-flow} of $\cal{S}$ is a map $f: \cal{B} \longrightarrow \{\pm 1, \ldots ,\pm (n-1)\}$ such that for any point $x\in X$, the sum of $f$ around all the blocks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-13 S. Akbari , A. C. Burgess , P. Danziger , E. Mendelsohn

A triangle-path in a graph $G$ is a sequence of distinct triangles $T_1,T_2,\ldots,T_m$ in $G$ such that for any $i, j$ with $1\leq i < j \leq m$, $|E(T_i)\cap E(T_{i+1})|=1$ and $E(T_i)\cap E(T_j)=\emptyset$ if $j > i+1$. A connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Liangchen Li , Chong Li , Rong Luo , Cun-Quan Zhang

We study the flow spectrum ${\cal S}(G)$ and the integer flow spectrum $\overline{{\cal S}}(G)$ of signed $(2t+1)$-regular graphs. We show that if $r \in {\cal S}(G)$, then $r = 2+\frac{1}{t}$ or $r \geq 2 + \frac{2}{2t-1}$. Furthermore, $2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Michael Schubert , Eckhard Steffen

A graph $\Gamma$ is said to be symmetric if its automorphism group $\rm Aut(\Gamma)$ acts transitively on the arc set of $\Gamma$. In this paper, we show that if $\Gamma$ is a finite connected heptavalent symmetric graph with solvable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Jia-Li Du , Yan-Quan Feng , Yu-Qin Liu

An interesting fact is that most of the known connected $2$-arc-transitive nonnormal Cayley graphs of small valency on finite simple groups are $(\mathrm{A}_{n+1},2)$-arc-transitive Cayley graphs on $\mathrm{A}_n$. This motivates the study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Jiangmin Pan , Binzhou Xia , Fugang Yin

A graph is called cubic and tetravalent if all of its vertices have valency 3 and 4, respectively. It is called vertex-transitive and arc-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on its vertex-set and on its arc- set,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-26 Primoz Potocnik , Pablo Spiga , Gabriel Verret

A graph is called {\em arc-transitive} (or {\em symmetric}) if its automorphism group has a single orbit on ordered pairs of adjacent vertices, and 2-arc-transitive its automorphism group has a single orbit on ordered paths of length 2. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Marston D. E. Conder , Cai-Heng Li , Primoz Potocnik

We study the quantum automorphism group of $3$-transitive graphs in this article. Those are highly symmetric graphs that were classified by Cameron and Macpherson in 1985, and we compute the quantum automorphism group of all such graphs,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Simon Schmidt , Makoto Yamashita

We prove that for every closed, connected, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold, there exists an alternating group A_n which is not the topological symmetry group of any graph embedded in the manifold. We also show that for every finite group…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Erica Flapan , Harry Tamvakis

The relative fixity of a permutation group is the maximum proportion of the points fixed by a non-trivial element of the group and the relative fixity of a graph is the relative fixity of its automorphism group, viewed as a permutation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Florian Lehner , Primoz Potocnik , Pablo Spiga