The 3-edge-colouring conjecture for cubic Cayley graphs

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Let GG be a finite group and let S⊂GS\subset G. The generalized orbital graph ΓG/H,S\Gamma_{G/H,S} has node set G/HG/H and edge set generated by the pairs {H,gH}\{H,gH\} for g∈Sg\in S. When H={id⁡}H=\{\operatorname{id}\}, it is a Cayley graph. A cubic Cayley graph is a Cayley graph in which every node has degree three, and a 3-edge colouring is a proper assignment of three colours to its edges so that the three edges incident to each node have distinct colours.

3-edge-colouring conjecture. Every cubic Cayley graph admits a 3-edge colouring.

Such a colouring would provide a way to construct cycle double covers of cubic Cayley graphs, which is relevant to the construction of vertex-transitive graphs and simplicial surfaces with prescribed automorphism groups. The supplied text does not state whether this conjecture has been resolved.

References

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Reymond Akpanya and Tom Goertzen, “Surfaces with given Automorphism Group”, arXiv:2307.12681 (2023).

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