Decomposing Complete 3-uniform Hypergraph into 5-cycles
Guanru Li
1, a
, Yiming Lei
1,a
and Jirimutu
1,b *
1
College of Mathematics, Institute of Discrete Mathematics of Inner Mongolia University for the
Nationalities, Tongliao
a
email200101@126.com,
b
jrmt@sina.com
Keywords: Uniform hypergraph; 5-cycle; Cycle decomposition
Abstract. About the Katona-Kierstead definition of a Hamiltonian cycles in a uniform hypergraph, a
decomposition of complete
-uniform hypergraph
into Hamiltonian cycles studied by
Bailey-Stevens and Meszka-Rosa. For
n
(mod 6), we design algorithm for decomposing the
complete 3-uniform hypergraphs into Hamiltonian cycles by using the method of edge-partition. A
decomposition of
into 5-cycles has been presented for all admissible
n
, and for all
m
n
,
is a positive integer. In general, the existence of a decomposition into 5-cycles remains
open. In this paper, we use the method of edge-partition and cycle sequence proposed by Jirimutu and
Wang. We find a decomposition of
into 5-cycles.
Introduction
Many papers studied the two different definitions of a Hamiltonian cycle in [1] and [3], which
are due to Katona-Kierstead, Wang and Lee respectively. In fact, two different definitions of a
Hamiltonian cycle are the same. A decomposition of the complete
-uniform hypergraphs into
Hamiltonian cycles has been considered in [2-9]. In [2], Hamiltonian decompositions of
for all
admissible
n
has been resolved. Recently, by programming, using the method of edge-partition
and cycle sequence, we have obtained some results for all admissible
n
and
n
in [10].
In [2], the problem of decomposing the complete 3- uniform hypergraph into 5-cycles is open.
Meszka and Rosa have introduced a necessary condition for the existence of such a decomposition is
that
n
or 11 (mod 15). A decomposition of
into 5- cycles exists for all admissible
n
, for all
m
n
,
is a positive integer. In this paper, we find a decomposition of
into
5-cycles.
Preliminaries
A hypergraph
consists of a finite set
of vertices with a family
of subsets of
,
called hyperedges (or simply edges). If each (hyper)edge has size
, we say that
is a
-uniform
hypergraph. In particular, the complete
-uniform hypergraph on
vertices has all
-subsets of
as edges, denoted this by
. The (hyper)edges of
is denoted by
n
K
ε
.
Definition 1.1 Let
be a
- uniform hypergraph. A
-cycle in
is a cyclic sequence
l
−
of
where
such that each consecutive
-tuple of vertices is an edge of
.
Definition 1.2
A
-cycle decomposition of
is a partition of the set of (hyper)edges of
into
mutually-disjoint
-cycles.
We introduce the method of edge-partition and cycle-model in [5].
Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 672-674 (2014) pp 1935-1939 Submitted: 25.07.2014
© (2014) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland Accepted: 09.08.2014
doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.672-674.1935
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