A graph G is said to be hyper-connected if the removal of every minimum cut creates exactly two connected components, one of which is an isolated vertex. In this paper, we first generalize the concept of hyper-connected graphs to that of semi-hyper-connected graphs: a graph G is called semi-hyper-connected if the removal of every minimum cut of G creates exactly two components. Then we characte...

Using covering graph techniques, a structural result about connected cubic simple graphs admitting an edge-transitive solvable group of automorphisms is proved. This implies, among other, that every such graph can be obtained from either the 3-dipole Dip3 or the complete graph K4, by a sequence of elementary-abelian covers. Another consequence of the main structural result is that the action of...

Symmetric graph designs, or SGDs, were deened by Gronau et al. as a common generalisation of symmetric BIBDs and orthogonal double covers. This note gives a classiication of SGDs admitting a 2-transitive automorphism group. There are too many for a complete determination, but in some special cases the determination can be completed, such as those which admit a 3-transitive group, and those with...

We call an undirected graph X half-transitive if the automorphism group Aut X of X acts transitively on the vertex set and edge set but not on the set of ordered pairs of adjacent vertices of X. In this paper we determine all half-transitive graphs of order p3 and degree 4, where p is an odd prime; namely, we prove that all such graphs are Cayley graphs on the non-Abelian group of order p3 and ...

The existence of a connected 12-regular {K4,K2,2,2}-ultrahomogeneous graph G is established, (i.e. each isomorphism between two copies of K4 or K2,2,2 in G extends to an automorphism of G), with the 42 ordered lines of the Fano plane taken as vertices. This graph G can be expressed in a unique way both as the edge-disjoint union of 42 induced copies of K4 and as the edge-disjoint union of 21 in...

Let k ≥ 3 be a positive odd integer and q be a power of a prime. In this paper we give an explicit construction of a q–regular bipartite graph on v = 2q vertices with girth g ≥ k + 5. The constructed graph is the incidence graph of a flag–transitive semiplane. For any positive integer t we also give an example of a q = 2–regular bipartite graph on v = 2q vertices with girth g ≥ k + 5 which is b...

The existence of a connected 12-regular {K4, K2,2,2}-ultrahomogeneous graph G is established, (i.e. each isomorphism between two copies of K4 or K2,2,2 in G extends to an automorphism of G), with the 42 ordered lines of the Fano plane taken as vertices. This graph G can be expressed in a unique way both as the edge-disjoint union of 42 induced copies of K4 and as the edge-disjoint union of 21 i...