Classification of nonorientable regular embeddings of complete bipartite graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jin Ho Kwak;Young Soo Kwon

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 790-784, Republic of Korea;Department of Mathematics, Yeungnam University, Kyeongsan, 712-749, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A 2-cell embedding of a graph G into a closed (orientable or nonorientable) surface is called regular if its automorphism group acts regularly on the flags - mutually incident vertex-edge-face triples. In this paper, we classify the regular embeddings of complete bipartite graphs K"n","n into nonorientable surfaces. Such a regular embedding of K"n","n exists only when n is of the form n=2p"1^a^"^1p"2^a^"^2...p"k^a^"^k where the p"i are primes congruent to +/-1 mod 8. In this case, up to isomorphism the number of those regular embeddings of K"n","n is 2^k.