Nah, I'll pick up some review credit.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Jernej Azarija <azi.std...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I have created a patch implementing the edge/arc transitive tests. I
> mentioned on the wiki page that the main idea of the test was suggested by
> you, but in case you want to claim any extra credit or something, here is
> the track ticket:
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13721
>
> On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:19:26 UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-10-30, Tom Boothby <tomas....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Oops, didn't see your reply before I posted.  Not counting the empty
>> > graph is very very strange.  At the very least OEIS needs to be
>> > updated to have a proper definition to warn people that the empty
>> > graph is excluded.
>>
>> it's a tricky question whether groups can be allowed to act on the empty
>> set.
>> If they aren't, then the empty graphs must be excluded.
>> I prefer to think of transitive actions having one orbit, while
>> allowing empty sets needs a change here: 0 or 1 orbits...
>> Allowing actions on empty sets loses you the 1-1 correspondence between
>> the transitive actions and the actions on cosets of subgroups.
>> So there is a lot to be lost here.
>>
>> Dima
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On 2012-10-30, Jernej Azarija <azi.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> ------=_Part_1698_7171753.1351582604933
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>> >>>
>> >>> On Monday, 29 October 2012 22:49:03 UTC+1, Tom wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Here's a list of 21 edge-transitive graphs on 6 vertices.
>> >>>>
>> >> [...]
>> >>>> They've all got 6 vertices.  They're all edge transitive.  That means
>> >>>> Weisstein's list is wrong.
>> >>
>> >> no, not really. He just doesn't count empty graphs. Somewhere on
>> >> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Edge-TransitiveGraph.html
>> >> you can read:
>> >>
>> >> "Counting empty graphs as edge-transitive, the numbers of
>> >> edge-transitive
>> >> graphs on , 2, ... nodes are 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 21, 27, .... "
>> >>
>> >> So it's a misunderstand related to definitions used, rather than
>> >> a bug in someone's code, it seems.
>> >>
>> >> Dima
>>
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