Hidden Cayley graph structures (Q1379825)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1121486
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Hidden Cayley graph structures
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1121486

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    Hidden Cayley graph structures (English)
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    22 June 1998
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    Let \(C\) be a cyclic group of odd order \(n\). A totally multicolored triple of \(C\) is a set of three distinct elemets \(a\), \(b\) and \(c\) of \(C\) such that \(a + b = \pm c\). It is shown that the Cayley graph of \(C\) with respect to a totally multicolored triple with \(\text{gcd}(a,b,c,n) = 1\) is a triangulation of a torus. If two totally multicolored triples share two elements, then the corresponding torus embeddings are related by first deleting one orbit of edges, forming a quadrilateral torus embedding, and then adding another orbit of edges comprising the other diagonals of the quadrilaterals. The authors define a graph \(G_n'\) on the set of totally multicolored triples by setting two triples adjacent if they share two elements and show that the diameter of \(G_n'\) is asymptotic to the square root of \(n\).
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    Cayley graph
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    graph embedding
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    torus embedding
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