{"title":"Stabilizers of consistent walks","authors":"Maruša Lekše","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2025.114408","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A walk of length <em>n</em> in a graph is consistent if there exists an automorphism of the graph that maps the initial <em>n</em> vertices to the final <em>n</em> vertices of the walk, preserving their order. In this paper we find some sufficient conditions for a consistent walk in an arc-transitive graph to have trivial pointwise stabilizer. We show that in that case, the size of the smallest generating set of the automorphism group is bounded by the valence of the graph.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":"348 6","pages":"Article 114408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X25000160","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A walk of length n in a graph is consistent if there exists an automorphism of the graph that maps the initial n vertices to the final n vertices of the walk, preserving their order. In this paper we find some sufficient conditions for a consistent walk in an arc-transitive graph to have trivial pointwise stabilizer. We show that in that case, the size of the smallest generating set of the automorphism group is bounded by the valence of the graph.
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