A characterization of metacirculants

作者:Li, Cai Heng*; Song, Shu Jiao; Wang, Dian Jun
来源:Journal of Combinatorial Theory - Series A, 2013, 120(1): 39-48.
DOI:10.1016/j.jcta.2012.06.010

摘要

Metacirculants were introduced by Alspach and Parsons in 1982 and have been a rich source of various topics since then, including the Hamiltonian path problem in metacirculants. A metacirculant has a vertex-transitive metacyclic subgroup of automorphisms, and a long-standing interesting question in the area is if the converse statement is true, namely, whether a graph with a vertex-transitive metacyclic automorphism group is a metacirculant. We shall answer this question in the negative, and then present a classification of cubic metacirculants.