LOCALLY PRIMITIVE GRAPHS OF PRIME-POWER ORDER

Two-geodesic transitive graphs of prime power order

In a non-complete graph $Gamma$, a vertex triple $(u,v,w)$ with $v$ adjacent to both $u$ and $w$ is called a $2$-geodesic if $uneq w$ and $u,w$ are not adjacent. The graph $Gamma$ is said to be   $2$-geodesic transitive if its automorphism group is transitive on arcs, and also on 2-geodesics. We first produce a reduction theorem for the family of $2$-geodesic transitive graphs of prime power or...

Integral circulant graphs of prime power order with maximal energy

The energy of a graph is the sum of the moduli of the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. We study the energy of integral circulant graphs, also called gcd graphs, which can be characterized by their vertex count n and a set D of divisors of n in such a way that they have vertex set Zn and edge set {{a, b} : a, b ∈ Zn, gcd(a− b, n) ∈ D}. Using tools from convex optimization, we study the maxim...

Integral Circulant Ramanujan Graphs of Prime Power Order

A connected ρ-regular graph G has largest eigenvalue ρ in modulus. G is called Ramanujan if it has at least 3 vertices and the second largest modulus of its eigenvalues is at most 2 √ ρ− 1. In 2010 Droll classified all Ramanujan unitary Cayley graphs. These graphs of type ICG(n, {1}) form a subset of the class of integral circulant graphs ICG(n,D), which can be characterised by their order n an...

FINITE s-ARC TRANSITIVE GRAPHS OF PRIME-POWER ORDER

An s-arc in a graph is a vertex sequence (α0, α1, . . . , αs) such that {αi−1, αi} ∈ EΓ for 1 6 i 6 s and αi−1 6= αi+1 for 1 6 i 6 s− 1. This paper gives a characterization of a class of s-transitive graphs; that is, graphs for which the automorphism group is transitive on s-arcs but not on (s+ 1)-arcs. It is proved that if Γ is a finite connected s-transitive graph (where s > 2) of order a p-p...

Pentavalent symmetric graphs of order twice a prime power