This paper presents a classification of vertex-primitive and vertex-biprimitive 2-path-transitive graphs which are not 2-arc-transitive. The classification leads to constructions of new examples of half-arc-transitive graphs.

A decomposition of a graph is a partition of the edge set. One can also look at partitions of the arc set but in this talk we restrict our attention to edges. If each part of the decomposition is a spanning subgraph then we call the decomposition a factorisation and the parts are called factors. Decompositions are especially interesting when the subgraphs induced by each part are pairwise isomo...

Let Γ be a G-symmetric graph, and let B be a nontrivial G-invariant partition of the vertex set of Γ . This paper aims to characterize (Γ ,G) under the conditions that the quotient graph ΓB is (G, 2)-arc transitive and the induced subgraph between two adjacent blocks is 2 · K2 or K2,2. The results answer two questions about the relationship between Γ and ΓB for this class of graphs. c © 2007 El...

Characterizing regular covers of edge-transitive or arc-transitive graphs is currently a hot topic in algebraic graph theory. In this paper, we will classify arctransitive regular cyclic covers of the complete bipartite graph Kp,p for each odd prime p. The classification consists of four infinite families of graphs. In particular, such covers exist for each odd prime p. The regular elementary a...

One version of the polycirculant conjecture states that every vertex-transitive graph has a non-identity semiregular automorphism that is, a non-identity automorphism whose cycles all have the same length. We give a proof of the conjecture in the arc-transitive case for graphs of valency 8, which was the smallest open valency.