On the bipanpositionable bipanconnectedness of hypercubes

  • Authors:
  • Tzu-Liang Kung;Cheng-Kuan Lin;Tyne Liang;Lih-Hsing Hsu;Jimmy J. M. Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, 200 Chung Chi Rd., Taichung 43301, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A bipartite graph G is bipanconnected if, for any two distinctvertices x and y of G, it contains an[x,y]-path of length l for each integer l satisfyingdG(x,y)≤/≤|V(G)|-1 and2|(l-dG(x,y)), wheredG(x,y) denotes the distance betweenvertices x and y in G and V(G) denotesthe vertex set of G. We say a bipartite graph G isbipanpositionably bipanconnected if, for any two distinct verticesx and y of G and for any vertexz∈V(G)-{x,y}, it contains a pathPl,k of length l such that x is thebeginning vertex of Pl,k, z is the(k+1)-th vertex of Pl,k, and y isthe ending vertex of Pl,k for each integerl satisfyingdG(x,z)+dG(y,z)≤/≤|V(G)|-1and 2|(l-dG(x,z)-dG(y,z)) and for eachinteger k satisfyingdG(x,z)≤k≤l-dG(y,z)and 2|(k-dG(x,z)). In this paper, we prove thatan n-cube is bipanpositionably bipanconnected ifn≥4. As a consequence, many properties of hypercubes,such as bipancyclicity, bipanconnectedness, bipanpositionableHamiltonicity, etc., follow directly from our result.