ϕ-symmetric Hamilton cycle decompositions of graphs

Authors

Michael W. Schroeder, Marshall UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2015

Abstract

The existence of symmetric Hamilton cycle decompositions for complete graphs and cocktail party graphs has been defined and explored in recent work by Akiyama et al., Brualdi and Schroeder, and others. In these works, the notion of symmetry in cocktail party graphs K_2m−F was integrally tied to the missing 1-factor. In this paper, we generalize the notion of symmetric decompositions in two ways. First, we require only that F is symmetric and show that if F is not the invariant 1-factor under the symmetry action, then K_2m−F has a symmetric Hamilton cycle decomposition for every m ≥ 2. Second, we consider other actions as symmetry, apply such definitions to appropriate complete graphs and complete multipartite graphs, and classify the existence of Hamilton cycle decompositions with such symmetry.

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Recommended Citation

Schroeder MW. ϕ-symmetric Hamilton cycle decompositions of graphs. Discrete Mathematics. 2015;338(9):1586-94.