Symmetries of the honeycomb toroidal graphs

Abstract

Honeycomb toroidal graphs are a family of cubic graphs determined by a set of three parameters that have been studied over the last three decades both by mathematicians and computer scientists. They all can be embedded on a torus and coincide with the cubic Cayley graphs of generalized dihedral groups with respect to a set of three reflections. In a recent survey paper B. Alspach gathered most known results on this intriguing family of graphs and suggested a number of research problems regarding them. In this paper we solve two of these problems by determining the full automorphism group of each honeycomb toroidal graph.