Arc-Transitive Dihedral Regular Covers of Cubic Graphs

Abstract

A regular covering projection is called dihedral or abelian if the covering transformation group is dihedral or abelian. A lot of work has been done with regard to the classification of arc-transitive abelian (or elementary abelian, or cyclic) covers of symmetric graphs. In this paper, we investigate arc-transitive dihedral regular covers of symmetric (arc-transitive) cubic graphs. In particular, we classify all arc-transitive dihedral regular covers of $K_4$, $K_{3,3}$, the 3-cube $Q_3$ and the Petersen graph.