Topological symmetry groups of small complete graphs

DOI10.3390/SYM6020189MaRDI QIDQ2412295zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dwayne Chambers, Erica Flapan

Publication date 23 October 2017

Published in Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5964

zbMATH Keywords

complete graphsmolecular symmetriesspatial graphstopological symmetry groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10)

Abstract: For each $nleq6$, we characterize all the groups which can occur as either the orientation preserving topological symmetry group or the topological symmetry group of some embedding of $K_n$ in $S^3$.

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Summary: Topological symmetry groups were originally introduced to study the symmetries of non-rigid molecules, but have since been used to study the symmetries of any graph embedded in \(\mathbb R^3\). In this paper, we determine for each complete graph \(K_n\) with \(n\leq 6\), what groups can occur as topological symmetry groups or orientation preserving topological symmetry groups of some embedding of the graph in \(\mathbb R^3\).

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