Transitive decompositions of graph products: rank 3 grid type

This paper is concerned with the linkedness of Cartesian products of complete graphs. A graph with at least 2 k vertices is k -linked if, for every set of 2 k distinct vertices organised in arbitrary k pairs of vertices, there are k vertex-disjoint paths joining the vertices in the pairs. We show that the Cartesian product K d 1 +1 × K d 2 +1 of complete graphs K d 1 +1 and K d 2 +1 is ⌊( d 1 + d 2 )/2⌋ -linked for d 1 , d 2 ≥ 2 , and this is best possible. This result is connected to graphs of simple polytopes. The Cartesian product K d 1 +1 × K d 2 +1 is the graph of the Cartesian product T ( d 1 ) × T ( d 2 ) of a d 1 -dimensional simplex T ( d 1 ) and a d 2 -dimensional simplex T ( d 2 ) . And the polytope T ( d 1 ) × T ( d 2 ) is a simple polytope , a ( d 1 + d 2 ) -dimensional polytope in which every vertex is incident to exactly d 1 + d 2 edges. While not every d -polytope is ⌊ d /2⌋ -linked, it may be conjectured that every simple d -polytope is. Our result implies the veracity of the revised conjecture for Cartesian products of two simplices.

We give two combinatorial proofs of a product formula for the number of spanning trees of the $n$-dimensional hypercube. The first proof is based on the assertion that if one chooses a uniformly random rooted spanning tree of the hypercube and orient each edge from parent to child, then the parallel edges of the hypercube get orientations which are independent of one another. This independence property actually holds in a more general context and has intriguing consequences. The second proof uses some "killing involutions'' in order to identify the factors in the product formula. It leads to an enumerative formula for the spanning trees of the $n$-dimensional hypercube augmented with diagonals edges, counted according to the number of edges of each type. We also discuss more general formulas, obtained using a matrix-tree approach, for the number of spanning trees of the Cartesian product of complete graphs.

A radio coloring of graphs is a modification of the frequency assignment problem. For a connected simple graph G, a mapping g of the vertices of G to the positive integers (colors) such that for every pair u and v of G, | g(u) − g(v)| is at least 1 + diam(G) − d(u, v), is called a radio coloring of G. The largest color used by g is called span of g, denoted by rn(g). The radio number, rn(G), is the least of { rn(g) : g is a radio coloring of G }. In this paper, for n ⩾ 7 we obtain the radio number of Cartesian product of complete graph K n and cycle C m , K n ☐C m , for n even and m odd, and for n odd and m 5 (mod 8).

An H-decomposition of a graph Γ\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\Gamma $$\\end{document} is a partition of its edge set into subgraphs isomorphic to H. A transitive decomposition is a special kind of H-decomposition that is highly symmetrical in the sense that the subgraphs (copies of H) are preserved and transitively permuted by a group of automorphisms of Γ\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\Gamma $$\\end{document}. This paper concerns transitive H-decompositions of the graph Kn□Kn\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$K_n \\Box K_n$$\\end{document} where H is a path. When n is an odd prime, we present a construction for a transitive path decomposition where the paths in the decomposition are considerably large compared to the number of vertices. Our main result supports well-known Gallai’s conjecture and an extended version of Ringel’s conjecture.

A set of vertices $S$ in a connected graph $G$ is a different-distance set if, for any vertex $w$ outside $S$, no two vertices in $S$ have the same distance to $w$.The lower and upper different-distance number of a graph are the order of a smallest, respectively largest, maximal different-distance set.We prove that a different-distance set induces either a special type of path or an independent set. We present properties of different-distance sets, and consider the different-distance numbers of paths, cycles, Cartesian products of bipartite graphs, and Cartesian products of complete graphs. We conclude with some open problems and questions.

The distinguishing number of Cartesian products of complete graphs

Current High-Performance Computing (HPC) and data center networks rely on large-radix routers. Hamming graphs (Cartesian products of complete graphs) and dragonflies (two-level direct networks with nodes organized in groups) are some direct topologies proposed for such networks. The original definition of the dragonfly topology is very loose, with several degrees of freedom, such as the inter- and intragroup topology, the specific global connectivity, and the number of parallel links between groups (or trunking level). This work provides a comprehensive analysis of the topological properties of the dragonfly network, providing balancing conditions for network dimensioning, as well as introducing and classifying several alternatives for the global connectivity and trunking level. From a topological study of the network, it is noted that a Hamming graph can be seen as a canonical dragonfly topology with a high level of trunking. Based on this observation and by carefully selecting the global connectivity, the Dimension Order Routing (DOR) mechanism safely used in Hamming graphs is adapted to dragonfly networks with trunking. The resulting routing algorithms approximate the performance of minimal, nonminimal, and adaptive routings typically used in dragonflies but without requiring virtual channels to avoid packet deadlock, thus allowing for lower cost router implementations. This is obtained by properly selecting the link to route between groups based on a graph coloring of network routers. Evaluations show that the proposed mechanisms are competitive with traditional solutions when using the same number of virtual channels and enable for simpler implementations with lower cost. Finally, multilevel dragonflies are discussed, considering how the proposed mechanisms could be adapted to them.

About some robustness and complexity properties of [formula omitted]-graphs networks

On the Complexity of Recognizing Hamming Graphs and Related Classes of Graphs

Pseudo-one-factorizations of regular graphs of odd order — II. products of graphs

We study the question of polytopality of graphs: when is a given graph the graph of a polytope? We first review the known necessary conditions for a graph to be polytopal, and we present three families of graphs which satisfy all these conditions, but which nonetheless are not graphs of polytopes.Our main contribution concerns the polytopality of Cartesian products of non-polytopal graphs. On the one hand, we show that products of simple polytopes are the only simple polytopes whose graph is a product. On the other hand, we provide a general method to construct (non-simple) polytopal products whose factors are not polytopal.

Fiber-complemented graphs — I: structure and invariant subgraphs

A graph G is k-factor-critical if G ? S has a perfect matching for any k-subset S of V(G). In this paper, we investigate the factor-criticality in Cartesian products of graphs and show that Cartesian product of an m-factor-critical graph and an n-factor-critical graph is $${(m+n+\varepsilon )}$$ -factor-critical, where $${\varepsilon = 0}$$ if both of m and n are even; $${\varepsilon = 1}$$ , otherwise. Moreover, this result is best possible.

This work presents the employment of graph theory for cryptographic applications. A Cartesian product graph (CPG) is used to propose new symmetric encryption schemes. On proposed encryption schemes, the ciphertexts of the plaintexts are sent to the receiver entity as the CPGs. The CPG is created based on two graphs G and H that are generated depending on the random choices of the plaintext bits. These bits are used as vertices of graphs G and H. The purpose of using the CPG is to increase the security level of the symmetric encryption schemes in comparison with other encryption schemes. Two study cases of the proposed symmetric Cartesian product graphic encryption (SCPGE) schemes are presented as new experimental results. The security issues of the proposed SCPGE schemes are determined. The SCPGE schemes consider as new insights for more secure communications.

We extend the ideas of Snevily and Avgustinovitch to enlarge the families of 2mregular graphs and m-regular bipartite graphs that are known to decompose into isomorphic copies of a tree T with m edges. For example, consider r1, . . . , rk with ∑k i=1 ri = m. If T has a k-edge-coloring with ri edges of color i such that every path in T uses some color once or twice, then every cartesian product of graphs G1, . . . , Gk such that Gi is 2ri-regular for 1 ≤ i ≤ k decomposes into copies of T .