Almost all finite Cayley graphs are stable

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Let GG be a finite group of order rr. An inverse-closed subset SS of GG satisfies S=S1S=S^{-1}. The Cayley graph Cay(G,S)\operatorname{Cay}(G,S) has vertex set GG, with adjacency determined by x1ySx^{-1}y\in S; it is stable when its automorphism group has the expected form Aut(D(Cay(G,S)))=(R(G)ι)×C2\operatorname{Aut}(D(\operatorname{Cay}(G,S)))=(R(G)\rtimes\langle\iota\rangle)\times C_2, where R(G)R(G) is the right regular representation of GG and ι\iota is inversion.

Stability conjecture. For a group GG of order rr, the proportion of inverse-closed subsets SS of GG such that Cay(G,S)\operatorname{Cay}(G,S) is stable approaches 11 as rr tends to infinity.

This conjecture proposes that almost all finite Cayley graphs have the smallest possible automorphism groups, extending the corresponding result established in the paper for finite abelian groups and relating to the notion of most rigid representations.

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Binzhou Xia, Zhishuo Zhang and Shasha Zheng, “Almost all standard double covers of abelian Cayley graphs have smallest possible automorphism groups”, arXiv:2601.20214 (2026).

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