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A characterization of regular partial cubes whose all convex cycles have the same lengths

Combinatorics 2024-10-15 v2

Abstract

Partial cubes are graphs that can be isometrically embedded into hypercubes. Convex cycles play an important role in the study of partial cubes. In this paper, we prove that a regular partial cube is a hypercube (resp., a Doubled Odd graph, an even cycle of length 2n2n where n4n\geqslant 4) if and only if all its convex cycles are 4-cycles (resp., 6-cycles, 2n2n-cycles). In particular, the partial cubes whose all convex cycles are 4-cycles are equivalent to almost-median graphs. Therefore, we conclude that regular almost-median graphs are exactly hypercubes, which generalizes the result by Mulder [J. Graph Theory, 4 (1980) 107--110] -- regular median graphs are hypercubes.

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@article{arxiv.2301.12200,
  title  = {A characterization of regular partial cubes whose all convex cycles have the same lengths},
  author = {Yan-Ting Xie and Yong-De Feng and Shou-Jun Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.12200},
  year   = {2024}
}

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