Products of circulant graphs are metacirculant

  • Authors:
  • Robin S. Sanders

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics Department, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, New York

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The standard products-cartesian, lexicographic, tensor, and strong--all belong to a class of products introduced by W. Imrich and H. Izbicki (1975, Monatsh. Math. 80, 277-281) and later called B-products by I. Broere and J. H. Hattingh (1990, Quaest. Math. 13, 191-216) who establish that the lexicographic product of two circulant graphs is again circulant. In this paper, we establish that any B-product of two circulant graphs is always a so-called metacirculant graph with parameters that are easily described in terms of the product graphs. We also establish that any metacirculant graph with the appropriate structure is isomorphic to the B-product of a pair of circulant graphs.