The answer to Woodall's musquash problem

DOI10.1016/S0012-365X(99)00130-2MaRDI QIDQ1817562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Grant Cairns, Deborah M. King

Publication date 9 April 2000

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-365x(99)00130-2

zbMATH Keywords

graphmusquashplanar curvethrackle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other designs, configurations (05B30)

Review text

An \(n\)-gonal musquash is a planar drawing of an \(n\)-gon, \(n \geq 5\), in which each pair of edges meets precisely once and the intersection has cyclic symmetry. It was known that \(n\)-gonal musquashes exist for \(n\) odd and for \(n=6\) and do not exist for \(n\) a multiple of 4. In the paper under review, the authors complete the solution of the existence problem by proving that there exist no \(n\)-gonal musquashes for \(n=2m\), \(m\) odd.

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