scholarly journals Sequentially Perfect and Uniform One-Factorizations of the Complete Graph

10.37236/1898 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Dinitz ◽  
Peter Dukes ◽  
Douglas R. Stinson
Keyword(s):  
Regular Graph ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Disjoint Cycles

In this paper, we consider a weakening of the definitions of uniform and perfect one-factorizations of the complete graph. Basically, we want to order the $2n-1$ one-factors of a one-factorization of the complete graph $K_{2n}$ in such a way that the union of any two (cyclically) consecutive one-factors is always isomorphic to the same two-regular graph. This property is termed sequentially uniform; if this two-regular graph is a Hamiltonian cycle, then the property is termed sequentially perfect. We will discuss several methods for constructing sequentially uniform and sequentially perfect one-factorizations. In particular, we prove for any integer $n \geq 1$ that there is a sequentially perfect one-factorization of $K_{2n}$. As well, for any odd integer $m \geq 1$, we prove that there is a sequentially uniform one-factorization of $K_{2^t m}$ of type $(4,4,\dots,4)$ for all integers $t \geq 2 + \lceil \log_2 m \rceil$ (where type $(4,4,\dots,4)$ denotes a two-regular graph consisting of disjoint cycles of length four).

scholarly journals Extending a perfect matching to a Hamiltonian cycle

2015 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 1 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Alahmadi ◽  
Robert E. L. Aldred ◽  
Ahmad Alkenani ◽  
Rola Hijazi ◽  
P. Solé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Regular Graph ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Perfect Matching ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Spanning Subgraph ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Matching Extendability

Graph Theory International audience Ruskey and Savage conjectured that in the d-dimensional hypercube, every matching M can be extended to a Hamiltonian cycle. Fink verified this for every perfect matching M, remarkably even if M contains external edges. We prove that this property also holds for sparse spanning regular subgraphs of the cubes: for every d ≥7 and every k, where 7 ≤k ≤d, the d-dimensional hypercube contains a k-regular spanning subgraph such that every perfect matching (possibly with external edges) can be extended to a Hamiltonian cycle. We do not know if this result can be extended to k=4,5,6. It cannot be extended to k=3. Indeed, there are only three 3-regular graphs such that every perfect matching (possibly with external edges) can be extended to a Hamiltonian cycle, namely the complete graph on 4 vertices, the complete bipartite 3-regular graph on 6 vertices and the 3-cube on 8 vertices. Also, we do not know if there are graphs of girth at least 5 with this matching-extendability property.

KNOTTED HAMILTONIAN CYCLES IN LINEAR EMBEDDING OF K7 INTO ℝ3

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 1250132 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOUNGSIK HUH
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycles ◽  
Intrinsic Properties ◽  
Linear Embedding

In 1983 Conway and Gordon proved that any embedding of the complete graph K7 into ℝ3 contains at least one nontrivial knot as its Hamiltonian cycle. After their work knots (also links) are considered as intrinsic properties of abstract graphs, and numerous subsequent works have been continued until recently. In this paper, we are interested in knotted Hamiltonian cycles in linear embedding of K7. Concretely it is shown that any linear embedding of K7 contains at most three figure-8 knots.

scholarly journals Multicoloured Hamilton Cycles

10.37236/1204 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Albert ◽  
Alan Frieze ◽  
Bruce Reed
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Proof Technique ◽  
Hamilton Cycles ◽  
Local Lemma

The edges of the complete graph $K_n$ are coloured so that no colour appears more than $\lceil cn\rceil$ times, where $c < 1/32$ is a constant. We show that if $n$ is sufficiently large then there is a Hamiltonian cycle in which each edge is a different colour, thereby proving a 1986 conjecture of Hahn and Thomassen. We prove a similar result for the complete digraph with $c < 1/64$. We also show, by essentially the same technique, that if $t\geq 3$, $c < (2t^2(1+t))^{-1}$, no colour appears more than $\lceil cn\rceil$ times and $t|n$ then the vertices can be partitioned into $n/t$ $t-$sets $K_1,K_2,\ldots,K_{n/t}$ such that the colours of the $n(t-1)/2$ edges contained in the $K_i$'s are distinct. The proof technique follows the lines of Erdős and Spencer's modification of the Local Lemma.

scholarly journals Decompositions of Complete Graphs into Bipartite 2-Regular Subgraphs

10.37236/4634 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryn Bryant ◽  
Andrea Burgess ◽  
Peter Danziger
Keyword(s):  
Regular Graph ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Perfect Matching ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Edge Disjoint

It is shown that if $G$ is any bipartite 2-regular graph of order at most $n/2$ or at least $n-2$, then the obvious necessary conditions are sufficient for the existence of a decomposition of the complete graph of order $n$ into a perfect matching and edge-disjoint copies of $G$.

scholarly journals Hamiltonian paths on Platonic graphs

2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (30) ◽  
pp. 1613-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Regular Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycles ◽  
Combinatorial Method ◽  
Hamiltonian Paths

We develop a combinatorial method to show that the dodecahedron graph has, up to rotation and reflection, a unique Hamiltonian cycle. Platonic graphs with this property are called topologically uniquely Hamiltonian. The same method is used to demonstrate topologically distinct Hamiltonian cycles on the icosahedron graph and to show that a regular graph embeddable on the2-holed torus is topologically uniquely Hamiltonian.

scholarly journals On strongly regular graphs with m2 = qm3 and m3 = qm2 where q ∈ Q

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (123) ◽  
pp. 35-60
Author(s):  
Mirko Lepovic
Keyword(s):  
Regular Graph ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Strongly Regular Graph ◽  
Strongly Regular Graphs ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Strongly Regular

We say that a regular graph G of order n and degree r ? 1 (which is not the complete graph) is strongly regular if there exist non-negative integers ? and ? such that |Si ? Sj | = ? for any two adjacent vertices i and j, and |Si ? Sj | = ? for any two distinct non-adjacent vertices i and j, where Sk denotes the neighborhood of the vertex k. Let ?1 = r, ?2 and ?3 be the distinct eigenvalues of a connected strongly regular graph. Let m1 = 1, m2 and m3 denote the multiplicity of r, ?2 and ?3, respectively. We here describe the parameters n, r, ? and ? for strongly regular graphs with m2 = qm3 and m3 = qm2 for q = 3/2, 4/3, 5/2, 5/3, 5/4, 6/5.

On Decomposing the Complete Graph into the Union of Two Disjoint Cycles

2015 ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad I. El-Zanati ◽  
Uthoomporn Jongthawonwuth ◽  
Heather Jordon ◽  
Charles Vanden Eynden
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Disjoint Cycles

Cyclic near-Hamiltonian cycle decomposition of 2-fold complete graph

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja’i Aldiabat ◽  
Haslinda Ibrahim ◽  
Sharmila Karim
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Cycle Decomposition
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