Characterisations and Galois conjugacy of generalised Paley maps

DOI10.1016/J.JCTB.2012.07.006MaRDI QIDQ1945993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gareth Jones

Publication date 17 April 2013

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0514

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupGalois groupgeneralised Paley mapPaley graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: A generalised Paley map is a Cayley map for the additive group of a finite field F, with a subgroup S=-S of the multiplicative group as generating set, cyclically ordered by powers of a generator of S. We characterise these as the orientably regular maps with orientation-preserving automorphism group acting primitively and faithfully on the vertices; allowing a non-faithful primitive action yields certain cyclic coverings of these maps. We determine the fields of definition and the orbits of the absolute Galois group on these maps, and we show that if (q-1)/(p-1) divides |S|, where |F|=q=p^e with p prime, then these maps are the only orientably regular embeddings of their underlying graphs; in particular this applies to the Paley graphs, where |S|=(q-1)/2 is even.

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