Tetravalent $2$-arc-transitive Cayley graphs on non-abelian simple groups

Abstract

A graph Gamma is said to be 2-arc-transitive if its full automorphism group Aut(Γ) has a single orbit on ordered paths of length 2, and for G\leq Aut(Γ), Γis G-regular if G is regular on the vertex set of Γ. Let G be a finite non-abelian simple group and let Γbe a connected tetravalent 2-arc-transitive G-regular graph. In 2004, Fang, Li and Xu proved that either G\unlhd \Aut(Γ) or G is one of 22 possible candidates. In this paper, the number of candidates is reduced to 7, and for each candidate G, it is shown that \Aut(Γ) has a normal arc-transitive non-abelian simple subgroup T such that G\leq T and the pair (G,T) is explicitly given

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