1. Canonical double covers of generalized Petersen graphs, and double generalized Petersen graphs.
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Qin, Yan‐Li, Xia, Binzhou, and Zhou, Sanming
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PETERSEN graphs ,AUTOMORPHISMS ,AUTOMORPHISM groups - Abstract
The canonical double cover D(Γ) of a graph Γ is the direct product of Γ and K2. If Aut(D(Γ))≅Aut(Γ)×Z2 then Γ is called stable; otherwise Γ is called unstable. An unstable graph is said to be nontrivially unstable if it is connected, non‐bipartite and no two vertices have the same neighborhood. In 2008 Wilson conjectured that, if the generalized Petersen graph GP(n,k) is nontrivially unstable, then both n and k are even, and either n/2 is odd and k2≡±1(mod n/2), or n=4k. In this note we prove that this conjecture is true. At the same time we determine all possible isomorphisms among the generalized Petersen graphs, the canonical double covers of the generalized Petersen graphs, and the double generalized Petersen graphs. Based on these we completely determine the full automorphism group of the canonical double cover of GP(n,k) for any pair of integers n,k with 1⩽k
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- 2021
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