On the existence of a matching orthogonal to a 2-factorization

AbstractThis note gives a partial answer to a problem posed by Brian Alspach in a recent issue of Discrete Mathematics. We show that if F1, F2,…,Fd is a 2-factorization of a 2d-regular graph G of order n⩾3.23d then G contains a d-matching with exactly one edge from each of F1, F2,…,Fd

Embedding complete binary trees into star networks

Abstract. Star networks have been proposed as a possible interconnection network for massively parallel computers. In this paper we investigate embeddings of complete binary trees into star networks. Let G and H be two networks represented by simple undirected graphs. An embedding of G into H is an injective mapping f from the vertices of G into the vertices of H. The dilation of the embedding is the maximum distance between f(u), f(v) taken over all edges (u, v) of G. Low dilation embeddings of binary trees into star graphs correspond to efficient simulations of parallel algorithms that use the binary tree topology, on parallel computers interconnected with star networks. First, we give a construction of embeddings of dilation 1 of complete binary trees into n-dimensional star graphs. These trees are subgraphs of star graphs. Their height is fl(n log n), which is asymptotically optimal. Constructions of embeddings of complete binary trees of dilation 28 and 26 + 1, for 8 > 1, into star graphs are then given. The use of larger dilation allows embeddings of trees of greater height into star graphs. For example, the difference of the heights of the trees embedded with dilation 2 and 1 is greater than n/2. All these constructions can be modified to yield embeddings of dilation 1, and 26, for ~ > 1, of complete binary trees into pancake graphs. Our results show that massively parallel computers interconnected with star networks are well suited for efficient simulations of parallel algorithms with complete binary tree topology

On the injective chromatic number of graphs

We define the concepts of an injective colouring and the injective chromatic number of a graph and give some upper and lower bounds in general, plus some exact values. We explore in particular the injective chromatic number of the hypercube and put it in the context of previous work on similar concepts, especially the theory of error-correcting codes. Finally, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the injective chromatic number to be equal to the degree for a regular graph