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Let $m,n,r$ be positive integers, and let $G=langle arangle: langle brangle cong mathbb{Z}_n: mathbb{Z}_m$ be a split metacyclic group such that $b^{-1}ab=a^r$. We say that $G$ is {em absolutely split with respect to $langle arangle$} provided that for any $xin G$, if $langle xranglecaplangle arangle=1$, then there exists $yin G$ such that $xinlangle yrangle$ and $G=langle arangle: langle yrangle$. In this paper, we give a sufficient and necessary condition for the group $G$ being absolutely split. This generalizes a result of Sanming Zhou and the second author in [arXiv: 1611.06264v1]. We also use this result to investigate the relationship between metacirculants and weak metacirculants. Metacirculants were introduced by Alspach and Parsons in $1982$ and have been a rich source of various topics since then. As a generalization of this classes of graphs, Maruv siv c and v Sparl in 2008 posed the so called weak metacirculants. A graph is called a {em weak metacirculant} if it has a vertex-transitive metacyclic automorphism group. In this paper, it is proved that a weak metacirculant of $2$-power order is a metacirculant if and only if it has a vertex-transitive split metacyclic automorphism group. This provides a partial answer to an open question in the literature.
Metacirculants are a rich resource of many families of interesting graphs, and weak metacirculants are generalizations of them. A graph is called a {em split weak metacirculant} if it has a vertex-transitive split metacyclic automorphism group. In two recent papers, it is shown that a graph of prime power order is a metacirculant if and only if it is a split weak metacirculant. Let $m$ is a positive integer. In this paper, we first give a sufficient condition for the existence of split weak metacirculants of order $m$ which are not metacirculants. This is then used to give a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence of split weak metacirculants of order $n$ which are not metacirculants, where $n$ is a product of two prime-powers. As byproducts, we construct infinitely many split weak metacirculant graphs which are not metacirculant graphs, and answer an open question reported in the literature.
Let $G_{m,n,k} = mathbb{Z}_m ltimes_k mathbb{Z}_n$ be the split metacyclic group, where $k$ is a unit modulo $n$. We derive an upper bound for the diameter of $G_{m,n,k}$ using an arithmetic parameter called the textit{weight}, which depends on $n$, $k$, and the order of $k$. As an application, we show how this would determine a bound on the diameter of an arbitrary metacyclic group.
Let $Gamma(G,S)$ denote the Cayley graph of a group $G$ with respect to a set $S subset G$. In this paper, we analyze the spectral properties of the Cayley graphs $mathcal{T}_{m,n,k} = Gamma(mathbb{Z}_m ltimes_k mathbb{Z}_n, {(pm 1,0),(0,pm 1)})$, where $m,n geq 3$ and $k^m equiv 1 pmod{n}$. We show that the adjacency matrix of $mathcal{T}_{m,n,k}$, upto relabeling, is a block circulant matrix, and we also obtain an explicit description of these blocks. By extending a result due to Walker-Mieghem to Hermitian matrices, we show that $mathcal{T}_{m,n,k}$ is not Ramanujan, when either $m > 8$, or $n geq 400$.
Let $text{Mod}(S_g)$ be the mapping class group of the closed orientable surface $S_g$ of genus $ggeq 2$. In this paper, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions under which two torsion elements in $text{Mod}(S_g)$ will have conjugates that generate a finite split nonabelian metacyclic subgroup of $text{Mod}(S_g)$. As applications of the main result, we give a complete characterization of the finite dihedral and the generalized quaternionic subgroups of $text{Mod}(S_g)$ up to a certain equivalence that we will call weak conjugacy. Furthermore, we show that any finite-order mapping class whose corresponding orbifold is a sphere, has a conjugate that lifts under certain finite-sheeted regular cyclic covers of $S_g$. Moreover, for $g geq 5$, we show the existence of an infinite dihedral subgroup of $text{Mod}(S_g)$ that is generated by the hyperelliptic involution and a root of a bounding pair map of degree $3$. Finally, we provide a complete classification of the weak conjugacy classes of the non-abelian finite split metacyclic subgroups of $text{Mod}(S_3)$ and $text{Mod}(S_5)$.
Modifying Rudins original construction of the Rudin-Shapiro sequence, we derive a new substitution-based sequence with purely absolutely continuous diffraction spectrum.