Orthogonal double covers of Kn,n by small graphs

  • Authors:
  • Ramadan El-Shanawany;Hans-Dietrich O. F. Gronau;Martin Grüttmüller

  • Affiliations:
  • Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany;Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany;Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

An orthogonal double cover (ODC) of K"n is a collection of graphs such that each edge of K"n occurs in exactly two of the graphs and two graphs have precisely one edge in common. ODCs of K"n and their generalizations have been extensively studied by several authors (e.g. in: J.H. Dinitz, D.R. Stinson (Eds.), Contemporary Design Theory, Wiley, New York, 1992, pp. 13-40 (Chapter 2); Design Codes Cryptography 27 (2002) 49; Graphs Combin. 13 (1997) 251; V. Leck, Orthogonal double covers of K"m, Ph.D. Thesis, Universitat Rostock, 2000). In this paper, we investigate ODCs where the graph to be covered twice is K"n","n and all graphs in the collection are isomorphic to a given small graph G. We prove that there exists an ODC of K"n","n by all proper subgraphs G of K"n","n for 1=