Regular Connected Bipancyclic Spanning Subgraphs of Torus Networks

Abstract

It is well known that an [Formula: see text]-dimensional torus [Formula: see text] is Hamiltonian. Then the torus [Formula: see text] contains a spanning subgraph which is 2-regular and 2-connected. In this paper, we explore a strong property of torus networks. We prove that for any even integer [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], the torus [Formula: see text] contains a spanning subgraph which is [Formula: see text]-regular, k-connected and bipancyclic; and if [Formula: see text] is odd, the result holds when some [Formula: see text] is even.