Decomposition and Packing of Cycles of a Given Length in a Complete Graph.

Date of Submission

December 1994

Date of Award

Winter 12-12-1995

Institute Name (Publisher)

Indian Statistical Institute

Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Degree Name

Master of Technology

Subject Name

Computer Science

Department

Applied Statistics Unit (ASU-Kolkata)

Supervisor

Roy, Bimal Kumar (ASU-Kolkata; ISI)

Abstract (Summary of the Work)

Existence of an edge-disjoint collection of cycles of given length m, which partition a complete undirected graph Kn of order n, depends on both m &n. In 1847, T. P. Kirkman(4] determined the spectrum of 3-cycle systems(the set of all n such that a 3-cycle system of order n exists). In 1892, spectrum problem for n-cycle systems of Kn wias settled[7). Kotzig[5] in 1965 and Rosa[10] in 1966 determined the spectrum of m-cycle systems, for all even m. But the general problem of packing is still unsolved.In this work, we have handled odd-cycle systems and even-cycle systems separately. It has been known that the spectrum of 3-cycle systems is precisely the set of all n = i or 3 (inod 6). We have considered those n where n = 0 or 2 or 5 (mod 6). Our objective is to pack largest possible no, of 3-cycles in a complete graph where no. of nodes is of the form 6t, 6t +2 or 6t +5. The packing problem in case of 4-cycle systems is handled in a different way. The spectrum of 4-cycle systems is precisely the set of all n= !(mod 8). In this work, we have considered the prolblem of packing 4-cycles in a complete graph of even order. A construction, that produces an edge disjoint collection of largest possible no. of 4-cycles from a complete graph of even order, is given. It has also been shown that this construction is cquivalent to Spouse-avoiding variant of Oberwolfach Problem proposed by IHuang, Kotzig and Rosa[3] in 1979.

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Control Number

ISI-DISS-1994-16

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DOI

http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/6191

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