Tetravalent half-arc-transitive graphs of order $12p$

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1 Department of Mathematics, Urmia University, Urmia 57135, Iran

2 Department of Mathematics, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

Abstract

A graph is half-arc-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on its vertex set, edge set, but not its arc set. In this paper, we study  all tetravalent half-arc-transitive graphs of order $12p$,  where $p$ is a prime.

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Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization
Volume 9, Issue 1
March 2024
Pages 145-157

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