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A report on stable graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

D. A. Holton
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Melbourne Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia
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It is the aim of this paper to introduce a new concept relating various subgroups of the automorphism group of a graph to corresponding subgraphs. Throughout g will denote a (Michigan) graph on a vertex set VV¦ =n) and Γ(g)=G will be the automorphism group of G considered as a permutation group on V.En, Cn, Dn and Sn are the identity, cyclic, dihedral, and symmetric groups acting on a set of size n, while Sp(q) is the permutation group of pq objects which is isomorphic to Sp but is q-fold in the sense that the objects are permuted q at a time [6]. HG means that H is a subgroup of G. Other group concepts can be found in Wielandt [7]. The graphs G1 ∪ G2, G1 + G2, G1 × G2, and G1[G2] along with their corresponding groups are as defined in, for example, Harary [4]. Finally we use Kn for the complete graph on n vertices.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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