Colour-permuting automorphisms of complete Cayley graphs
Let G be a (finite or infinite) group, and let KG = Cay(G; G \ {1}) be the complete graph with vertex set G, considered as a Cayley graph of G. Being a Cayley graph, it has a natural edge-colouring by sets of the form {s, s-1} for s in G. We prove that every colour-permuting automorphism of KG is an affine map, unless G is isomoprhic to the direct product of Q8 and B, where Q8 is the quaternion group of order 8, and B is an abelian group, such that b2 is trivial for all b in B. We also prove (without any restriction on G) that every colour-permuting automorphism of KG is the composition of a group automorphism and a colour-preserving graph automorphism. This was conjectured by D. P. Byrne, M. J. Donner, and T. Q. Sibley in 2013.
Authors
- Shirin Alimirzaei
- Dave Witte Morris
Institutions
- University of Lethbridge (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics
- Published
- 2025-01-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.26493/2590-9770.1795.a62
- Primary Topic
- graph theory and CDMA systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00