Title: Hamiltonian Cycle Systems Which Are Both Cyclic and Symmetric
Abstract:Abstract The notion of a symmetric Hamiltonian cycle system (HCS) of a graph Γ has been introduced and studied by J. Akiyama, M. Kobayashi, and G. Nakamura [J Combin Des 12 (2004), 39–45] for , by R. ...Abstract The notion of a symmetric Hamiltonian cycle system (HCS) of a graph Γ has been introduced and studied by J. Akiyama, M. Kobayashi, and G. Nakamura [J Combin Des 12 (2004), 39–45] for , by R. A. Brualdi and M. W. Schroeder [J Combin Des 19 (2011), 1–15] for , and then naturally extended by V. Chitra and A. Muthusamy [Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, to appear] to the multigraphs and . In each case, there must be an involutory permutation ψ of the vertices fixing all the cycles of the HCS and at most one vertex. Furthermore, for , this ψ should be precisely the permutation switching all pairs of endpoints of the edges of I . An HCS is cyclic if it is invariant under some cyclic permutation of all the vertices. The existence question for a cyclic HCS of has been completely solved by Jordon and Morris [Discrete Math (2008), 2440–2449]—and we note that their cyclic construction is also symmetric for (mod 8). It is then natural to study the existence problem of an HCS of a graph or multigraph Γ as above which is both cyclic and symmetric. In this paper, we completely solve this problem: in the case of even order, the final answer is that cyclicity and symmetry can always cohabit when a cyclic solution exists. On the other hand, imposing that a cyclic HCS of odd order is also symmetric is very restrictive; we prove in fact that an HCS of with both properties exists if and only if is a prime.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-05-13
Language: en
Type: article
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