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A graph is one-regular if its automorphism group acts regularly on the set of its arcs. In this article a complete classification of tetravalent one-regular graphs of order twice a product of two primes is given. It follows from this classification that with the exception of four graphs of orders 12 and 30, all such graphs are Cayley graphs on Abelian, dihedral, or generalized dihedral groups.
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Zhou, JX., Feng, YQ. Tetravalent one-regular graphs of order 2pq . J Algebr Comb 29, 457–471 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-008-0146-z
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