Vertex-primitive s-arc-transitive digraphs admitting a Suzuki or Ree group

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2023.103729MaRDI QIDQ6171502zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 18 July 2023

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10508

zbMATH Keywords

digraphSuzuki groupRee groupvertex-primitive digraph\(s\)-arc-transitive digraph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Structural characterization of families of graphs (05C75) Primitive groups (20B15) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05)

Abstract: The investigation of s-arc-transitivity of digraphs can be dated back to 1989 when the third author showed that s can be arbitrarily large if the action on vertices is imprimitive. However, the situation is completely different when the digraph is vertex-primitive and not a directed cycle. In 2017 the second author, Li and Xia constructed the first infinite family of G-vertex-primitive 2-arc-transitive examples, and asked if there is an upper bound on s for G-vertex-primitive s-arc-transitive digraphs w=that are not directed. In 2018 the second author and Xia showed that if there is a largest such value of s then it will occur when G is almost simple. So far it has been shown that sleq 2 for almost simple groups whose socle is an alternating group or a projective special linear group. The contribution of this paper is to prove that sleq 1 in the case of the Suzuki and the small Ree groups. We give constructions with s=1 to show that the bound is sharp.

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