Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8941821 | Discrete Applied Mathematics | 2018 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Such numbers are also considered for the subclass of vertex-transitive graphs. A positive integer n is a Cayley number if every vertex-transitive graph of order n is a Cayley graph. In analogy, a positive integer n is said to be a vertex-transitive-odd number (in short, a VTO-number) if every vertex-transitive graph of order n admits an odd automorphism. It is proved that there exists infinitely many VTO numbers which are square-free and have arbitrarily long prime factorizations. Further, it is proved that Cayley numbers congruent to 2 modulo 4, cubefree nilpotent Cayley numbers congruent to 3 modulo 4, and numbers of the form 2p, p a prime, are VTO numbers. At the other extreme, it is proved that for a positive integer n the complete graph Kn and its complement are the only vertex-transitive graphs of order n admitting odd automorphisms if and only if n is a Fermat prime.
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Authors
Ademir HujduroviÄ, Klavdija Kutnar, Dragan MaruÅ¡iÄ,