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Sunlet factors for Cartesian products of cycles

Combinatorics 2025-10-22 v1

Abstract

A sunlet is a cycle with a pendant edge attached at each vertex of the cycle. For the bipartite toroidal grid graphs C2nC2nC_{2n} \Box C_{2n}, factorizations into sunlets are given by homomorphisms from disjoint unions of ss copies of a sunlet for s{1,n,n2},n3s \in \{1, n, n^2\}, n \geq 3 such that edges are mapped bijectively.

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@article{arxiv.2510.18048,
  title  = {Sunlet factors for Cartesian products of cycles},
  author = {Henry Jervis and Paul C. Kainen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18048},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

To appear in Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, May 2026; 9 pages, 6 figures (5 in color)