A family of 2-groups and an associated family of semisymmetric, locally 2-arc-transitive graphs

Abstract: A mixed dihedral group is a group

H

with two disjoint subgroups

X

and

Y

, each elementary abelian of order

2^{n}

, such that

H

is generated by

X c u p Y

, and

H / H^{'} c o n g X i m e s Y

. In this paper, for each

n g e q 2

, we construct a mixed dihedral

2

-group

H

of nilpotency class

3

and order

2^{a}

where

a = (n^{3} + n^{2} + 4 n) / 2

, and a corresponding graph

S i g m a

, which is the clique graph of a Cayley graph of

H

. We prove that

S i g m a

is semisymmetric, that is,

m A u t (S i g m a)

acts transitively on the edges, but intransitively on the vertices, of

S i g m a

. These graphs are the first known semisymmetric graphs constructed from groups that are not

2

-generated (indeed

H

requires

2 n

generators). Additionally, we prove that

S i g m a

is locally

2

-arc-transitive, and is a normal cover of the `basic' locally

2

-arc-transitive graph

{m K}_{2^{n}, 2^{n}}

. As such, the construction of this family of graphs contributes to the investigation of normal covers of prime-power order of basic locally

2

-arc-transitive graphs -- the `local' analogue of a question posed by C.~H.~Li.

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