The topological symmetry group of a canonically embedded complete graph in \(S^3\)
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The topological symmetry group of a canonically embedded complete graph in \(S^3\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0891.05024
author: Chie Noda
published in: Tokyo Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1998-07-08T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(G\) be a (finite and simple) graph with vertex set \(V(G)\) and automorphism group \(\Aut(G)\). If \(f:G\to \mathbb{S}^3\) is an embedding of \(G\) into the 3-sphere \(\mathbb{S}^3\), then the topological symmetry group \(\text{TSG}(f)\) of \(f\) is defined by \[ \begin{multlined} \text{TSG} (f)=\{h\in \Aut(G) \mid\text{there is a homeomorphism }\phi: \mathbb{S}^3\to \mathbb{S}^3 \\ \text{with }\phi(f(G)) =f(G)\text{ such that } f\circ h= \phi\circ f|_{V(G)}\}. \end{multlined} \] The present paper faces the problem of determining \(\text{TSG} (f_n)\), where \(f_n\) is a particular embedding of the complete graph \(K_n\) with \(n\) vertices into \(\mathbb{S}^3\), called canonical bud presentation, see \textit{T. Endo} and \textit{T. Otsuki} [Hokkaido Math. J. 23, No. 3, 383-398 (1994; Zbl 0814.57007)] and \textit{T. Otsuki} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 68, No. 1, 23-35, Art. No. 0054 (1996; Zbl 0858.05038)]. In particular, it is proved that, if the order \(n\) is at least seven, then the topological symmetry group of \(f_n\) is isomorphic to the dihedral group of order \(2n\). Note that, since the cases \(n\leq 5\) and \(n=6\) have already been solved by \textit{Y. Yoshimata} [Topological symmetry group of standard spatial graph of \(K_5\) (Japanese), Master Thesis, Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ. (1992)] and by \textit{K. Kobayashi} and \textit{C. Toba} [Proc. TGRC-KOSEF 3, 153-171 (1993)] respectively, the previous result yields a complete answer to the considered problem.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M15
zbMATH DE Number: 1054589
zbMATH Keywords: topological symmetry group
zbMATH Keywords: embedding
zbMATH Keywords: complete graph
reviewed by: Maria Rita Casali
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3836/tjm/1270042397
OpenAlex ID: W1990368374
DOI: 10.3836/TJM/1270042397
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