On the vertex-to-edge duality between the Cayley graph and the coset geometry of von Dyck groups (Q2826355)

The paper under review concerns the study of relationships between the Cayley graph and the coset geometry of the von Dyck groups \(D(a, b, c)\), \((a, b, c > 1\) integers).NEWLINENEWLINELet \(D(a, b, c) = \langle x, y \: x^a = y^b = (xy)^c = 1\rangle \) be a von Dyck group, and call \(\Gamma (a, b, c)\) its Cayley graph corresponding to the generating set \(\{x, y\}\), and \(T(a, b, c)\) the rank two coset geometry determined by the subgroups \(\langle x \rangle \) and \(\langle y \rangle \).NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result of the paper is that all information about \(\Gamma (a, b, c)\) is already contained in \(T(a, b, c)\). Precisely, the authors first show that \(\Gamma (a, b, c)\) and \(T(a, b, c)\) are linked by a vertex-to-edge duality, i.e., there is a \(D(a, b, c)\)-equivariant bijection \(\varphi \) between the set of vertices of \(\Gamma (a, b, c)\) and the set of edges of \(T(a, b, c)\). Then they prove that there is a map \(\psi \) from the set of incident pairs of edges of \(T(a, b, c)\) to \(\langle x\rangle \cup \langle y\rangle \) such that vertices \(d_1, d_2\) of \(\Gamma (a, b, c)\) are connected by an \(x\)-colored (resp. \(y\)-colored) oriented edge if and only if \(\psi \bigl (\varphi (d_1), \varphi (d_2)\bigr) = x\) (resp. = \(y\)).