English

Small cycles, generalized prisms and Hamiltonian cycles in the Bubble-sort graph

Combinatorics 2021-04-06 v3

Abstract

The Bubble-sort graph BSn,n2BS_n,\,n\geqslant 2, is a Cayley graph over the symmetric group SymnSym_n generated by transpositions from the set {(12),(23),,(n1n)}\{(1 2), (2 3),\ldots, (n-1 n)\}. It is a bipartite graph containing all even cycles of length \ell, where 4n!4\leqslant \ell\leqslant n!. We give an explicit combinatorial characterization of all its 44- and 66-cycles. Based on this characterization, we define generalized prisms in BSn,n5BS_n,\,n\geqslant 5, and present a new approach to construct a Hamiltonian cycle based on these generalized prisms.

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@article{arxiv.1901.03917,
  title  = {Small cycles, generalized prisms and Hamiltonian cycles in the Bubble-sort graph},
  author = {Elena V. Konstantinova and Alexey N. Medvedev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03917},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages, 7 figures

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