A characterisation of edge-affine 2-arc-transitive covers of \K_{2ⁿ,2ⁿ}

Publication date: 30 November 2022

Abstract: We introduce the notion of an emph{

n

-dimensional mixed dihedral group}, a general class of groups for which we give a graph theoretic characterisation. In particular, if

H

is an

n

-dimensional mixed dihedral group then the we construct an edge-transitive Cayley graph

G a m m a

of

H

such that the clique graph

S i g m a

of

G a m m a

is a

2

-arc-transitive normal cover of

K_{2^{n}, 2^{n}}

, with a subgroup of

A u t (S i g m a)

inducing a particular emph{edge-affine} action on

K_{2^{n}, 2^{n}}

. Conversely, we prove that if

S i g m a

is a

2

-arc-transitive normal cover of

K_{2^{n}, 2^{n}}

, with a subgroup of

A u t (S i g m a)

inducing an emph{edge-affine} action on

K_{2^{n}, 2^{n}}

, then the line graph

G a m m a

of

S i g m a

is a Cayley graph of an

n

-dimensional mixed dihedral group. Furthermore, we give an explicit construction of a family of

n

-dimensional mixed dihedral groups. This family addresses a problem proposed by Li concerning normal covers of prime power order of the `basic'

2

-arc-transitive graphs. In particular, we construct, for each

n g e q 2

, a

2

-arc-transitive normal cover of

2

-power order of the `basic' graph

K_{2^{n}, 2^{n}}

.

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