Semisymmetric elementary abelian covers of the Möbius-Kantor graph
Semisymmetric elementary abelian covers of the Möbius-Kantor graph
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10.1016/j.disc.2006.10.008
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2005-10
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A. Malnic;D. Marušič;Stefko Miklavic;P. Potočnik
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A. Malnic;D. Marušič;Stefko Miklavic;P. Potočnik
Let ℘N:X˜→X be a regular covering projection of connected graphs with the group of covering transformations isomorphic to N. If N is an elementary abelian p-group, then the projection ℘Nis called p-elementary abelian. The projection ℘Nis vertex-transitive (edge-transitive) if some vertex-transitive (edge-transitive) subgroup of Aut X lifts along ℘N, and semisymmetric if it is edge- but not vertex-transitive. The projection ℘Nis minimal semisymmetric if ℘Ncannot be written as a composition ℘N=℘∘℘Mof two (nontrivial) regular covering projections, where ℘Mis semisymmetric. Finding elementary abelian covering projections can be grasped combinatorially via a linear representation of automorphisms acting on the first homology group of the graph. The method essentially reduces to finding invariant subspaces of matrix groups over prime fields (see [A. Malnič, D. Marušič, P. Potočnik, Elementary abelian covers of graphs, J. Algebraic Combin. 20 (2004) 71–97]). In this paper, all pairwise nonisomorphic minimal semisymmetric elementary abelian regular covering projections of the Möbius–Kantor graph, the Generalized Petersen graph GP(8,3), are constructed. No such covers exist for p=2. Otherwise, the number of such covering projections is equal to (p-1)/4 and 1+(p-1)/4 in cases p≡5,9,13,17,21(mod24) and p≡1(mod24), respectively, and to (p+1)/4 and 1+(p+1)/4 in cases p≡3,7,11,15,23(mod24) and p≡19(mod24), respectively. For each such covering projection the voltage rules generating the corresponding covers are displayed explicitly.