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EPPA FOR TWO-GRAPHS AND ANTIPODAL METRIC SPACES

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2020

Abstract

We prove that the class of finite two-graphs has the extension property for partial automorphisms (EPPA, or Hrushovski property), thereby answering a question of Macpherson. In other words, we show that the class of graphs has the extension property for switching automorphisms.

We present a short, self-contained, purely combinatorial proof which also proves EPPA for the class of integer-valued antipodal metric spaces of diameter 3, answering a question of Aranda et al. The class of two-graphs is an important new example which behaves differently from all the other known classes with EPPA: Two-graphs do not have the amalgamation property with automorphisms (APA), their Ramsey expansion has to add a graph, it is not known if they have coherent EPPA, and even EPPA itself cannot be proved using the Herwig-Lascar theorem.