# SEMISYMMETRIC CUBIC GRAPHS OF ORDER 34p3

• Darafsheh, Mohammad Reza (School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science College of Science University of Tehran) ;
• Shahsavaran, Mohsen (School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science College of Science University of Tehran)
• Accepted : 2019.11.06
• Published : 2020.05.31

#### Abstract

A simple graph is called semisymmetric if it is regular and edge transitive but not vertex transitive. Let p be a prime. Folkman proved [J. Folkman, Regular line-symmetric graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory 3 (1967), no. 3, 215-232] that no semisymmetric graph of order 2p or 2p2 exists. In this paper an extension of his result in the case of cubic graphs of order 34p3, p ≠ 17, is obtained.

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