Hamiltonian properties on a class of circulant interconnection networks

Abstract

Classes of circulant graphs play an important role in modeling interconnection networks in parallel and distributed computing. They also find applications in modeling quantum spin networks supporting the perfect state transfer. It has been noticed that unitary Cayley graphs as a class of circulant graphs possess many good properties such as small diameter, mirror symmetry, recursive structure, regularity, etc. and therefore can serve as a model for efficient interconnection networks. In this paper we go a step further and analyze some other characteristics of unitary Cayley graphs important for the modeling of a good interconnection network. We show that all unitary Cayley graphs are hamiltonian. More precisely, every unitary Cayley graph is hamiltonian-laceable (up to one exception for X6) if it is bipartite, and hamiltonianconnected if it is not. We prove this by presenting an explicit construction of hamiltonian paths on Xnm using the hamiltonian paths on Xn and Xm for gcd(n,m) = 1. Moreover, we also prove that every unitary Cayley graph is bipancyclic and every nonbipartite unitary Cayley graph is pancyclic.