Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Joy Morris

  • Date: 09/15/2014
  • Time: 12:00
Lecturer(s):
Joy Morris, University of Lethbridge
Location: 

University of Lethbridge

Topic: 

Colour-permuting automorphisms of Cayley graphs

Description: 

A Cayley graph Cay(G;S) has the elements of G as its vertices, with g--gs if and only if s is an element of S. There is a natural colouring of the edges of any such graph, by assigning colour s to an edge if it came from the element s of S. For a Cayley digraph, any graph automorphism that preserves this colouring has to be a group automorphism of G. For a Cayley graph, this is not the case. I will present examples of Cayley graphs that have automorphisms that do not correspond to group automorphisms of G. I will also show that for some families of groups, such examples are not possible. I will also discuss the more general problem of automorphisms that permute the colours, rather than necessarily preserving all of them.

Other Information: 

Location: B660 University Hall


Web page: http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~nathanng/ntcoseminar/