Independent Even Cycles in the Pancake Graph and Greedy Prefix-Reversal Gray Codes

Elena Konstantinova, Alexey Medvedev

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The Pancake graph Pn,n⩾3, is a Cayley graph on the symmetric group generated by prefix-reversals. It is known that Pn contains any ℓ-cycle for 6 ⩽ ℓ⩽ n!. In this paper we construct a family of maximal (covering) sets of even independent (vertex-disjoint) cycles of lengths ℓ bounded by O(n2). We present the new concept of prefix-reversal Gray codes based on independent cycles which extends the known greedy prefix-reversal Gray code constructions given by Zaks and Williams. Cases of non-existence of codes based on the presented family of independent cycles are provided using the fastening cycle approach. We also give necessary condition for existence of greedy prefix-reversal Gray codes based on the independent cycles with arbitrary even lengths.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)1965-1978
Nombre de pages14
journalGraphs and Combinatorics
Volume32
Numéro de publication5
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 1 sept. 2016
Modification externeOui

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