Cycle decompositions of cartesian products of two cycles
Combinatorics
2023-10-23 v1
Abstract
We say a graph decomposes a graph if there exists a partition of the edges of into subgraphs isomorphic to . We seek to characterize necessary and sufficient conditions for a cycle of length , denoted , to decompose the Cartesian product of two cycles . We prove that if is a multiple of 3, then the Cartesian product of a cycle and any other cycle can be decomposed into 3 cycles of equal length. This extends work of Kotzig, who proved in 1973 that the Cartesian product of two cycles can always be decomposed into two cycles of equal length. We also show that if , , and are positive, and divides then decomposes .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.13493,
title = {Cycle decompositions of cartesian products of two cycles},
author = {Moriah Aberle and Sarah Gold and Rivkah Moshe and David Offner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13493},
year = {2023}
}