The automorphism groups of small affine rank 3 graphs

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Main Authors: Guo, Jin, Vasil'ev, Andrey V., Wang, Rui
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author Guo, Jin
Vasil'ev, Andrey V.
Wang, Rui
author_facet Guo, Jin
Vasil'ev, Andrey V.
Wang, Rui
contents A rank 3 graph is an orbital graph of a rank 3 permutation group of even order. Despite the classification of rank 3 graphs being complete, see, e.g., Chapter 11 of the recent monograph 'Strongly regular graphs' by Brouwer and Van Maldeghem, the full automorphism groups of these graphs (equivalently, the 2-closures of rank 3 groups) have not been explicitly described, though a lot of information on this subject is available. In the present note, we address this problem for the affine rank 3 graphs. We find the automorphism groups for finitely many relatively small graphs and show that modulo known results, this provides the full description of the automorphism groups of the affine rank 3 graphs, thus reducing the general problem to the case when the socle of the automorphism group is nonabelian simple.
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spellingShingle The automorphism groups of small affine rank 3 graphs
Guo, Jin
Vasil'ev, Andrey V.
Wang, Rui
Combinatorics
Group Theory
20B25, 05E18, 05E30
A rank 3 graph is an orbital graph of a rank 3 permutation group of even order. Despite the classification of rank 3 graphs being complete, see, e.g., Chapter 11 of the recent monograph 'Strongly regular graphs' by Brouwer and Van Maldeghem, the full automorphism groups of these graphs (equivalently, the 2-closures of rank 3 groups) have not been explicitly described, though a lot of information on this subject is available. In the present note, we address this problem for the affine rank 3 graphs. We find the automorphism groups for finitely many relatively small graphs and show that modulo known results, this provides the full description of the automorphism groups of the affine rank 3 graphs, thus reducing the general problem to the case when the socle of the automorphism group is nonabelian simple.
title The automorphism groups of small affine rank 3 graphs
topic Combinatorics
Group Theory
20B25, 05E18, 05E30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04559