A graph G is said to be hyper-connected if the removal of every minimum cut creates exactly two connected components, one of which is an isolated vertex. In this paper, we first generalize the concept of hyper-connected graphs to that of semi-hyper-connected graphs: a graph G is called semi-hyper-connected if the removal of every minimum cut of G creates exactly two components. Then we characte...

Using covering graph techniques, a structural result about connected cubic simple graphs admitting an edge-transitive solvable group of automorphisms is proved. This implies, among other, that every such graph can be obtained from either the 3-dipole Dip3 or the complete graph K4, by a sequence of elementary-abelian covers. Another consequence of the main structural result is that the action of...

Symmetric graph designs, or SGDs, were deened by Gronau et al. as a common generalisation of symmetric BIBDs and orthogonal double covers. This note gives a classiication of SGDs admitting a 2-transitive automorphism group. There are too many for a complete determination, but in some special cases the determination can be completed, such as those which admit a 3-transitive group, and those with...

We call an undirected graph X half-transitive if the automorphism group Aut X of X acts transitively on the vertex set and edge set but not on the set of ordered pairs of adjacent vertices of X. In this paper we determine all half-transitive graphs of order p3 and degree 4, where p is an odd prime; namely, we prove that all such graphs are Cayley graphs on the non-Abelian group of order p3 and ...

The existence of a connected 12-regular {K4,K2,2,2}-ultrahomogeneous graph G is established, (i.e. each isomorphism between two copies of K4 or K2,2,2 in G extends to an automorphism of G), with the 42 ordered lines of the Fano plane taken as vertices. This graph G can be expressed in a unique way both as the edge-disjoint union of 42 induced copies of K4 and as the edge-disjoint union of 21 in...

Let k ≥ 3 be a positive odd integer and q be a power of a prime. In this paper we give an explicit construction of a q–regular bipartite graph on v = 2q vertices with girth g ≥ k + 5. The constructed graph is the incidence graph of a flag–transitive semiplane. For any positive integer t we also give an example of a q = 2–regular bipartite graph on v = 2q vertices with girth g ≥ k + 5 which is b...

The existence of a connected 12-regular {K4, K2,2,2}-ultrahomogeneous graph G is established, (i.e. each isomorphism between two copies of K4 or K2,2,2 in G extends to an automorphism of G), with the 42 ordered lines of the Fano plane taken as vertices. This graph G can be expressed in a unique way both as the edge-disjoint union of 42 induced copies of K4 and as the edge-disjoint union of 21 i...

Characterizing regular covers of edge-transitive or arc-transitive graphs is currently a hot topic in algebraic graph theory. In this paper, we will classify arctransitive regular cyclic covers of the complete bipartite graph Kp,p for each odd prime p. The classification consists of four infinite families of graphs. In particular, such covers exist for each odd prime p. The regular elementary a...

A graph is semi-symmetric if it is regular and edge transitive but not vertex transitive. The 3and 4-valent semi-symmetric graphs are wellstudied. Several papers describe infinite families of such graphs and their properties. 3-valent semi-symmetric graphs have been completely classified up to 768 vertices. The goal of this project is to extend this work to 5-valent semi-symmetric graphs. In th...