Quasiprimitive groups with a biregular dihedral subgroup,and arc-transitive bidihedrants

Abstract

A semiregular permutation group on a set $\Ome$ is called {\em bi-regular} if it has two orbits. A classification is given of quasiprimitive permutation groups with a biregular dihedral subgroup. This is then used to characterize the family of arc-transitive graphs whose automorphism groups containing a bi-regular dihedral subgroup. We first show that every such graph is a normal $r$-cover of an arc-transitive graph whose automorphism group is either quasiprimitive or bi-quasiprimitive on its vertices, and then classify all such quasiprimitive or bi-quasiprimitive arc-transitive graphs.