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Dimensions of Mycielskians of cycles

Combinatorics 2026-05-28 v1

Abstract

The Mycielskian is a standard construction studied in many an introductory graph theory course. It is natural to consider Mycielskians of cycles, some of the simplest of all graphs. This paper deals with the so-called ``dimension'' of such graphs. The dimension of a graph GG is the smallest positive integer nn such that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the vertices of GG and some collection of points in nn-dimensional Euclidean space such that if two vertices in GG are adjacent, then the distance between the corresponding points is 11. In previous works, it had been proven that the dimension of the Mycielskian of a kk-cycle is 3 when kk is 33, 44, or 55, and 2 when k=10k=10. In this paper, we answer the question completely. Namely, we show that the dimension is 33 when k10k\neq 10, and 22 when k=10k=10.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27778,
  title  = {Dimensions of Mycielskians of cycles},
  author = {Brian Chung and Mike Krebs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27778},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures