Two local conditions on the vertex stabiliser of arc-transitive graphs and their effect on the Sylow subgroups

DOI10.1515/JGT.2011.097zbMATH Open1241.05046arXiv1102.4421MaRDI QIDQ2882895FDOQ2882895

Authors: Pablo Spiga 

Publication date: 11 May 2012

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study $G$-arc-transitive graphs $Delta$ where the permutation group $G_x^{Delta(x)}$ induced by the stabiliser $G_x$ of the vertex $x$ on the neighbourhood $Delta(x)$ satisfies the two conditions given in the introduction. We show that for such a $G$-arc-transitive graph $Delta$, if $(x,y)$ is an arc of $Delta$, then the subgroup $G_{x,y}^{[1]}$ of $G$ fixing pointwise $Delta(x)$ and $Delta(y)$ is a $p$-group for some prime $p$. Next we prove that every $G$-locally primitive (respectively quasiprimitive, semiprimitive) graph satisfies our two local hypotheses. Thus this provides a new Thompson-Wielandt-like theorem for a very large class of arc-transitive graphs. Furthermore, we give various families of $G$-arc-transitive graphs where our two local conditions do not apply and where $G_{x,y}^{[1]}$ has arbitrarily large composition factors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4421

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zbMATH Keywords

\(G\)-arc-transitive graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25)

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