Finite groups admitting a regular tournament $m$-semiregular representation
Abstract
For a positive integer , a finite group is said to admit a tournament -semiregular representation (TmSR for short) if there exists a tournament such that the automorphism group of is isomorphic to and acts semiregularly on the vertex set of with orbits. Clearly, every finite group of even order does not admit a TmSR for any positive integer , and T1SR is the well-known tournament regular representation (TRR for short). In 1986, Godsil \cite{god} proved, by a probabilistic approach, that the only finite groups of odd order without a TRR are and . More recently, Du \cite{du} proved that every finite group of odd order has a TmSR for every . The author of \cite{du} observed that a finite group of odd order has no regular TmSR when is an even integer, a group of order has no regular T3SR, and admits a regular T3SR. At the end of \cite{du}, Du proposed the following problem. \noindent{\sf\it Problem.} \ \ {\it For every odd integer , classify finite groups of odd order which have a regular TmSR.} The motivation of this paper is to give an answer for the above problem. We proved that if is a finite group with odd order , then admits a regular TmSR for any odd integer .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.13406,
title = {Finite groups admitting a regular tournament $m$-semiregular representation},
author = {Dein Wong and Songnian Xu and Chi Zhang and Jinxing Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13406},
year = {2025}
}