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Orientably-regular embeddings of complete multigraphs

Combinatorics 2023-11-17 v1

Abstract

An embedding of a graph on an orientable surface is orientably-regular (or rotary, in an equivalent terminology) if the group of orientation-preserving automorphisms of the embedding is transitive (and hence regular) on incident vertex-edge pairs of the graph. A classification of orientably-regular embeddings of complete graphs was obtained by L. D. James and G. A. Jones [in "Regular orientable imbeddings of complete graphs", J. Combinatorial Theory Ser. B 39 (1985), 353-367], pointing out interesting connections to finite fields and Frobenius groups. By a combination of graph-theoretic methods and tools from combinatorial group theory we extend results of James and Jones to classification of orientably-regular embeddings of complete multigraphs with arbitrary edge-multiplicity.

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@article{arxiv.2311.09666,
  title  = {Orientably-regular embeddings of complete multigraphs},
  author = {Stefan Gyurki and Sona Pavlikova and Jozef Siran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09666},
  year   = {2023}
}
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