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Automorphism group of the complete transposition graph

Combinatorics 2015-12-11 v1

Abstract

The complete transposition graph is defined to be the graph whose vertices are the elements of the symmetric group SnS_n, and two vertices α\alpha and β\beta are adjacent in this graph iff there is some transposition (i,j)(i,j) such that α=(i,j)β\alpha=(i,j) \beta. Thus, the complete transposition graph is the Cayley graph \Cay(Sn,S)\Cay(S_n,S) of the symmetric group generated by the set SS of all transpositions. An open problem in the literature is to determine which Cayley graphs are normal. It was shown recently that the Cayley graph generated by 4 cyclically adjacent transpositions is not normal. In the present paper, it is proved that the complete transposition graph is not a normal Cayley graph, for all n3n \ge 3. Furthermore, the automorphism group of the complete transposition graph is shown to equal \Aut(\Cay(Sn,S))=(R(Sn)\Inn(Sn))Z2, \Aut(\Cay(S_n,S)) = (R(S_n) \rtimes \Inn(S_n)) \rtimes \mathbb{Z}_2, where R(Sn)R(S_n) is the right regular representation of SnS_n, \Inn(Sn)\Inn(S_n) is the group of inner automorphisms of SnS_n, and Z2=h\mathbb{Z}_2 = \langle h \rangle, where hh is the map αα1\alpha \mapsto \alpha^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7363,
  title  = {Automorphism group of the complete transposition graph},
  author = {Ashwin Ganesan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7363},
  year   = {2015}
}
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