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Highly arc-transitive digraphs - structure and counterexamples

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2015

Abstract

Two problems of Cameron, Praeger, and Wormald [Infinite highly arc transitive digraphs and universal covering digraphs, Combinatorica (1993)] are resolved. First, locally finite highly arc-transitive digraphs with universal reachability relation are presented.

Second, constructions of two-ended highly arc-transitive digraphs are provided, where each 'build- ing block' is a finite bipartite digraph that is not a disjoint union of complete bipartite digraphs. Both of these were conjectured impossible in the above-mentioned paper.

We also describe the structure of two-ended highly arc-transitive digraphs in more generality, heading towards a characterization of such digraphs. However, the complete characteriza- tion remains elusive.