Antipodal Distance Transitive Covers of Complete Graphs

A distance-transitive antipodal cover of a complete graphKnpossesses an automorphism group that acts 2-transitively on the fibres. The classification of finite simple groups implies a classification of finite 2-transitive permutation groups, and this allows us to determine all possibilities for such a graph. Several new infinite families of distance-transitive graphs are constructed.

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