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Geodesic transitive graphs of small valency

Combinatorics 2025-06-06 v1

Abstract

For a graph Γ\Gamma, the {\em distance} dΓ(u,v)d_\Gamma(u,v) between two distinct vertices uu and vv in Γ\Gamma is defined as the length of the shortest path from uu to vv, and the {\em diameter} diam(Γ)\mathrm{diam}(\Gamma) of Γ\Gamma is the maximum distance between uu and vv for all vertices uu and vv in the vertex set of Γ\Gamma. For a positive integer ss, a path (u0,u1,,us)(u_0,u_1,\ldots,u_{s}) is called an {\em ss-geodesic} if the distance of u0u_0 and usu_s is ss. The graph Γ\Gamma is said to be {\em distance transitive} if for any vertices u,v,x,yu,v,x,y of \Ga\Ga such that d\Ga(u,v)=d\Ga(x,y)d_\Ga(u,v)=d_\Ga(x,y), there exists an automorphism of Γ\Gamma that maps the pair (u,v)(u,v) to the pair (x,y)(x,y). Moreover, Γ\Gamma is said to be {\em geodesic transitive} if for each idiam(\Ga)i\leq \mathrm{diam}(\Ga), the full automorphism group acts transitively on the set of all ii-geodesics. In the monograph [Distance-Regular Graphs, Section 7.5], the authors listed all distance transitive graphs of valency at most 1313. By using this classification, in this paper, we provide a complete classification of geodesic transitive graphs with valency at most 1313. As a result, there are exactly seven graphs of valency at most 1313 that are distance transitive but not geodesic transitive.

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@article{arxiv.2506.04670,
  title  = {Geodesic transitive graphs of small valency},
  author = {Jun-Jie Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04670},
  year   = {2025}
}
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