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In this picture you see a graph. The shortest path between vertex 5 and vertex 3 is highlighted in red. Instead I want blue highlighted edges of thickness 10.

HighlightGraph[WheelGraph[6, EdgeStyle -> Directive[Black,AbsoluteThickness[10]]],
 PathGraph@FindShortestPath[WheelGraph[6], 5, 3], 
 GraphHighlightStyle -> {"Red", AbsoluteThickness[10]}]

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I tried this. The thickness went to 10, but why is the highlighted path not blue?

HighlightGraph[WheelGraph[6, EdgeStyle -> Directive[Black, AbsoluteThickness[10]],
  VertexSize -> 0], PathGraph@FindShortestPath[WheelGraph[6], 5, 3],
  GraphHighlightStyle -> {"Blue", AbsoluteThickness[10]}]

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You can also Style sub-graphs directly (see @Heike's answer to a related question)

 HighlightGraph[WheelGraph[6, EdgeStyle -> Directive[Black, AbsoluteThickness[10]]], 
   Style[PathGraph[FindShortestPath[WheelGraph[6], 5, 3]],
          {{Blue,  AbsoluteThickness[10]}}]]

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It seems that GraphHighlightStyle takes only built-in options:

GraphElementData["GraphHighlightStyle"]

{Automatic, "Dashed", "Dotted", "Thick", "VertexConcaveDiamond", "VertexDiamond", "VertexTriangle", "DehighlightFade", "DehighlightGray", "DehighlightHide"}

To achieve what you're looking for you can wrap up a solution customizing the EdgeStyle:

WheelGraph[6, 
 EdgeStyle -> 
  Flatten@{(# -> {Blue, AbsoluteThickness[10]} & /@ 
      EdgeList[
       PathGraph@FindShortestPath[WheelGraph[6], 5, 3]]), {Directive[
      Black, AbsoluteThickness[10]]}}, VertexSize -> 0]

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