This paper begins the classification of all edge-primitive 3-arc-transitive graphs by classifying such where automorphism group is an almost simple with socle alternating or sporadic group, and classical a vertex-stabiliser acting faithfully on set neighbours.

We characterize the automorphism groups of quasiprimitive 2-arc-transitive graphs of twisted wreath product type. This is a partial solution for a problem of Praeger regarding quasiprimitive 2-arc transitive graphs. The solution stimulates several further research problems regarding automorphism groups of edge-transitive Cayley graphs and digraphs.

A transitive decomposition of a graph is a partition of the edge set together with a group of automorphisms which transitively permutes the parts. In this paper we determine all transitive decompositions of the Johnson graphs such that the group preserving the partition is arc-transitive and acts primitively on the parts.

A graph is said to be 1 2-transitive if its automorphism group is ver-tex and edge but not arc-transitive. For each n 11, a 1 2-transitive graph of valency 4 and girth 6, with the automorphism group isomor-phic to A n Z 2 , is given.

A list is given of all semisymmetric (edgebut not vertex-transitive) connected finite cubic graphs of order up to 768. This list was determined by the authors using Goldschmidt’s classification of finite primitive amalgams of index (3, 3), and a computer algorithm for finding all normal subgroups of up to a given index in a finitely-presented group. The list includes several previously undiscov...