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

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Abstract: In this paper we study G-arc-transitive graphs Delta where the permutation group GxDelta(x) induced by the stabiliser Gx 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 Gx,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 Gx,y[1] has arbitrarily large composition factors.









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