Topological Symmetry Groups of Complete Bipartite Graphs
Geometric Topology
2018-08-14 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
The symmetries of complex molecular structures can be modeled by the {\em topological symmetry group} of the underlying embedded graph. It is therefore important to understand which topological symmetry groups can be realized by particular abstract graphs. This question has been answered for complete graphs; it is natural next to consider complete bipartite graphs. In previous work we classified the complete bipartite graphs that can realize topological symmetry groups isomorphic to , or ; in this paper we determine which complete bipartite graphs have an embedding in whose topological symmetry group is isomorphic to , , or .
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@article{arxiv.1412.7255,
title = {Topological Symmetry Groups of Complete Bipartite Graphs},
author = {Kathleen Hake and Blake Mellor and Matthew Pittluck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7255},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
26 pages, minor revisions; this is the final version accepted by Tokyo Journal of Mathematics