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Biprimitive Graphs of Smallest Order

Shao-Fei Du and Dragan Marušič
Department of Mathematics, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100037, Peoples Republic of China DRAGAN MARU \check SI \check C\dagger

DOI: 10.1023/A:1018625926088

Abstract

A regular and edge-transitive graph which is not vertex-transitive is said to be semisymmetric. Every semisymmetric graph is necessarily bipartite, with the two parts having equal size and the automorphism group acting transitively on each of these parts. A semisymmetric graph is called biprimitive if its automorphism group acts primitively on each part. In this paper biprimitive graphs of smallest order are determined.

Pages: 151–156

Keywords: primitive group; semisymmetric graph; biprimitive graph

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