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$C_4$ and $C_6$ decomposition of the tensor product of complete graphs

Combinatorics 2019-08-02 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a simple and finite graph. A graph is said to be \textit{decomposed} into subgraphs H1H_1 and H2H_2 which is denoted by G=H1H2G= H_1 \oplus H_2, if GG is the edge disjoint union of H1H_1 and H2H_2. If G=H1H2H3HkG= H_1 \oplus H_2 \oplus H_3 \oplus \cdots \oplus H_k, where\ H1H_1,H2H_2,H3H_3, ..., HkH_k are all isomorphic to HH, then GG is said to be HH-decomposable. Futhermore, if HH is a cycle of length mm then we say that GG is CmC_m-decomposable and this can be written as CmGC_m|G. Where G×H G\times H denotes the tensor product of graphs GG and HH, in this paper, we prove the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of C4C_4-decomposition (respectively, C6C_6-decomposition ) of Km×KnK_m \times K_n. Using these conditions it can be shown that every even regular complete multipartite graph GG is C4C_4-decomposable (respectively, C6C_6-decomposable) if the number of edges of GG is divisible by 44 (respectively, 66).

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@article{arxiv.1908.00172,
  title  = {$C_4$ and $C_6$ decomposition of the tensor product of complete graphs},
  author = {Opeyemi Oyewumi and Abolape D. Akwu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00172},
  year   = {2019}
}

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