Let H be a graph. G is a subgraph of H if V (G) ⊆ V (H) and E(G) ⊆ E(H). The subgraphs of H can be used to determine whether H is planar, a line graph, and to give information about the chromatic number. In a recent work by Beeler and Jamison [3], it was shown that it is difficult to obtain an automorphic decomposition of a triangle-free graph. As many of their examples involve circulant graphs, it is of particular interest to find triangle-free subgraphs within circulants. As a cycle with at least four vertices is a canonical example of a triangle-free subgraph, we concentrate our efforts on these. In this thesis, we will state necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of edge induced and vertex induced cycles within circulants.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-3337 |
| Date | 12 August 2008 |
| Creators | Wooten, Trina Marcella |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | Copyright by the authors. |
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