A distance-transitive graph G is one upon which the automorphism group acts transitively on ordered pairs of vertices at every fixed distance. Only connected graphs need to be considered. Those of diameter 2 are the rank-3 graphs, whose careful study was initiated by Donald G. Higman in his breakthrough paper [16]. A huge amount of effort has gone into the classification of all finite distancet...

Abstract: When restricted to the rank 1 and rank 2 faces, the Hasse diagram of a regular abstract 4-polytope provides a bipartite graph with a high degree of symmetry. Focusing on the case of the self-dual polytopes of type 3,q,3, I will show that the graphs obtained are 3-arc transitive cubic graphs. Also, given any 3-arc transitive cubic graph, I will discuss when it is possible to consider t...

Let φ be Euler’s phi function. We prove that a vertex-transitive graph 0 of order n, with gcd(n, φ(n)) = 1, is isomorphic to a circulant graph of order n if and only if Aut(0) contains a transitive solvable subgroup. As a corollary, we prove that every vertex-transitive graph 0 of order n is isomorphic to a circulant graph of order n if and only if for every such 0, Aut(0) contains a transitive...

For a positive integer s, a graph Γ is called s-arc transitive if its full automorphism group AutΓ acts transitively on the set of s-arcs of Γ . Given a group G and a subset S of G with S = S−1 and 1 / ∈ S, let Γ = Cay(G, S) be the Cayley graph of G with respect to S and G R the set of right translations of G on G. Then G R forms a regular subgroup of AutΓ . A Cayley graph Γ = Cay(G, S) is call...

In a recent paper (arXiv:1505.01475 ) Estélyi and Pisanski raised a question whether there exist vertex-transitive Haar graphs that are not Cayley graphs. In this note we construct an infinite family of trivalent Haar graphs that are vertex-transitive but non-Cayley. The smallest example has 40 vertices and is the well-known Kronecker cover over the dodecahedron graph G(10, 2), occurring as the...

A transitive orientation of an undirected graph is an assignment of directions to its edges so that these directed edges represent a transitive relation between the vertices of the graph. Not every graph has a transitive orientation, but every graph can be turned into a graph that has a transitive orientation, by adding edges. We study the problem of adding an inclusion minimal set of edges to ...

Several authors have studied methods to construct the transitive reduction of a directed graph, but little work has been done on how to maintain it. We are motivated by a real-world application which uses a transitively reduced graph at its core and must maintain the transitive reduction over a sequence of graph operations. This paper presents an efficient method to maintain the transitive redu...

We study (G, 2)-arc-transitive graphs for innately transitive permutation groups G such that G can be embedded into a wreath product SymΓwr Sl acting in product action on Γ. We find two such connected graphs: the first is Sylvester’s double six graph with 36 vertices, while the second is a graph with 120 vertices whose automorphism group is Aut Sp(4, 4). We prove that under certain conditions n...

We present characterizations of connected graphs G of order n ≥ 2 for which h + (G) = n. It is shown that for every two integers n and m with 1 ≤ n − 1 ≤ m ≤ n 2 , there exists a connected graph G of order n and size m such that for each integer k with 2 ≤ k ≤ n, there exists an orientation of G with hull number k. 1. Introduction. The (directed) distance d(u, v) from a vertex u to a vertex v i...

In the past, diierent authors developed distinct approaches to the problem of transitive orientation. This also resulted in diierent ideas and diierent theorems which seem unrelated. In this paper we show the connections between these theories and present a new algorithm to recognize a comparability graph. A comparability graph is an undirected graph G = (V; E), jV j = n, jEj = m, in which ever...