We study automorphism groups in five extremal families of polyhedral graphs. For every $n\ge14$, we prove that every minimum-order $3$-polytopal graph containing a vertex of each degree $3,4,\ldots,n$ is asymmetric. The proof uses an exact planar defect decomposition, a complete description of the high-degree tail, and a saturation theorem for the subgraph induced by the uniquely high-degree vertices. Duality gives the corresponding asymmetry result for minimum-face polyhedra containing faces of every size $3,4,\ldots,n$. For the three polyhedral graphs whose complements are also polyhedral, we determine the ordinary and extended automorphism groups and identify the extended group \[ \mathsf{Aut}^{\pm}(G_{13})\cong (C_2\times C_2)\rtimes C_4. \] Next, we classify automorphism groups of radius-one polyhedra. In the unique-dominating-vertex case they are cyclic or dihedral, and in the triangulated case the possibilities are \[ 1,\qquad C_2,\qquad C_3,\qquad C_2\times C_2,\qquad S_3. \] For polyhedra that are unigraphic among the class of self-dual, we show that their automorphism group is either $1$ or $C_2$. Finally, we consider polyhedra that are products of graphs, for each of the four standard graph products, and we classify them according to their automorphism group.
The orientable genus polynomial of a graph counts its cellular embeddings by genus. For finite simple $2$-connected cubic graphs it is a cycle-matroid invariant: $M(G)\cong M(H)$ implies $\Gamma_G=\Gamma_H$. The adjacency spectrum and the genus polynomial are incomparable: neither determines the other. We exhibit connected cubic graphs on $16$ vertices sharing the adjacency spectrum, spanning-tree count, girth, diameter, vertex and edge connectivity, automorphism-group order, and cycle counts through length $10$, yet with pairwise distinct genus polynomials. Splitting the expected face count at twice the girth explains the difference: short faces are spectral, long faces are not. We construct an explicit infinite family of connected cospectral cubic pairs $(G_t,H_t)$ on $14+2t$ vertices whose minimum genera differ. We also compute the genus polynomials of all $7,875,918$ connected cubic graphs through $22$ vertices and derive from short-cycle counts a deterministic lower bound on the minimum genus.
For a graph $G$, let $h(G)$ be the minimum cardinality of a vertex set meeting every maximum independent set of $G$. We establish two complementary reduction principles for the Bollob\'as--Erd\H{o}s--Tuza conjecture: the conjecture for arbitrary graphs is equivalent to its restriction to regular graphs of any fixed positive linear degree, and, within every hereditary graph class, a uniform sublinear bound is equivalent to a sublinear bound on graphs of every fixed positive linear vertex connectivity. We prove the sharp general estimate \[ h(G)\le \left\lfloor\frac{|V(G)|}{2\alpha(G)+\delta(G)-|V(G)|}\right\rfloor \] whenever the denominator is positive, with equality for balanced complete multipartite graphs. Consequently, every $3$-colorable graph of order $n$ with $\kappa(G)\ge\rho n$ and $\rho>1/3$ has a hitting set of size at most $\lfloor(\rho-1/3)^{-1}\rfloor$; direct use of a $3$-coloring improves this to $6$ when $\kappa(G)>4n/9$ and to the sharp bound $3$ when $\kappa(G)>n/2$. For dense regular graphs with independence ratio greater than $1/4$, we obtain a logarithmic bound, while constructions with linear degree and linear independence number show that $h(G)=\Omega(\sqrt n)$ can still occur. We also prove a logarithmic bound for near-regular $3$-colorable graphs and exhibit a critical family at connectivity $n/3$ that explains the limitations of the degree-surplus and degree-ratio methods.
The generating graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a finite group $G$ has vertex set $G\setminus\{1\}$, and two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if they generate $G$. Breuer, Guralnick, Lucchini, Maroti and Nagy [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 42 (2010), 621--633] conjectured that, for every finite group $G$ with at least four elements, $\Gamma(G)$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle if and only if every proper quotient of $G$ is cyclic. They proved their conjecture for sufficiently large almost simple groups with alternating socle and for all almost simple groups with sporadic socle. In this paper, we complete the asymptotic picture for almost simple groups by proving the conjecture for sufficiently large almost simple groups with socle of Lie type.
Maxwell observed that the graph of any rigid generic framework in $\mathbb{R}^d$ on $n$ vertices has at least $dn-\binom{d+1}{2}$ edges. In this article we prove that graphs whose complement has maximum degree at most two and no component isomorphic to a triangle or a square are rigid in the maximum dimension allowed by this observation. In particular, this determines the precise maximum dimension in which the graph obtained from a complete graph $K_{2m}$ by deleting a perfect matching is rigid, resolving a recent conjecture of Lew. We also deduce bounds on the rigidity of complements of bounded-degree graphs more generally, which significantly improve existing degree-based bounds.
John Haslegrave, Peleg Michaeli, Anthony Nixon· 0 citations
The bounds on the number of Eulerian orientations for certain classes of connected, loopless $4-regular graphs are improved and a divide-and-conquer algorithm is provided that leverages structural properties to compute the exact number of Eulerian orientations for separable graphs without exhaustive enumeration.
The class of 2-distance-transitive graphs naturally generalizes distance-transitive graphs and plays a central role in algebraic graph theory. Classifying such graphs for a prescribed underlying group is a key open problem. A vertex-transitive graph $\Gamma$ is said to be $2$-distance-transitive if, for each $i\in \{1,2\}$, any two pairs of vertices with identical distance $i$ in $\Gamma$ can be mapped to each other via some automorphism of the graph. In this paper, we present a complete classification of all $2$-distance-transitive Cayley graphs of the semi-dihedral groups.
Wei Jin, Cai-Xia Li, Ping-Shan Li· 0 citations
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