A census of small transitive groups and vertex-transitive graphs

摘要

We describe two similar but independently-coded computations used to construct a complete catalogue of the transitive groups of degree less than 48, thereby verifying, unifying and extending the catalogues previously available. From this list, we construct all the vertex-transitive graphs of order less than 48. We then present a variety of summary data regarding the transitive groups and vertex-transitive graphs, focusingon properties that seem to occur most frequently in the study of groups acting on graphs. We illustrate how such catalogues can be used, first by finding a complete list of the elusive groups of order at most 47 and then by completely determining which groups of order at most 47 are CI groups. Crown Copyright (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.