Antiparallel d-stable traces and a stronger version of ore problem

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Antiparallel \(d\)-stable traces and a stronger version of ore problem




Abstract: In 2013 a novel self-assembly strategy for polypeptide nanostructure design which could lead to significant developments in biotechnology was presented in [Design of a single-chain polypeptide tetrahedron assembled from coiled-coil segments, Nature Chem. Bio. 9 (2013) 362--366]. It was since observed that a polyhedron P can be realized by interlocking pairs of polypeptide chains if its corresponding graph G(P) admits a strong trace. It was since also demonstrated that a similar strategy can also be expanded to self-assembly of designed DNA [Design principles for rapid folding of knotted DNA nanostructures, Nature communications 7 (2016) 1--8.]. In this direction, in the present paper we characterize graphs which admit closed walk which traverses every edge exactly once in each direction and for every vertex v, there is no subset N of its neighbors, with 1leq|N|leqd, such that every time the walk enters v from N, it also exits to a vertex in N. This extends C. Thomassen's characterization [Bidirectional retracting-free double tracings and upper embeddability of graphs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 50 (1990) 198--207] for the case d=1.



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