A Family of Non-quasiprimitive Graphs Admitting a Quasiprimitive 2-arc Transitive Group Action

European Journal of Combinatorics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 551-557

  Fang, Xin Gui ^a   Havas, George ^a   Wang, Jie ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

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EID: 0009077873     PISSN: 01956698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eujc.1999.0304     Document Type: Article

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