scientific article; zbMATH DE number 15352

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0698.00017.] The tensor product \(G\otimes H\) of graphs \(G\) and \(H\) is defined to have vertex set the Cartesian product of the vertex sets of \(G\) and \(H\); \((u,v)\) is adjacent to \((u',v')\) if and only if \(uu'\) is an edge in \(G\) and \(vv'\) is an edge in \(H\). The authors use Frobenius groups to prove results about factorizations of tensor products. They prove that if \(H\) is regular of degree \(n\) and \(G\) has a decomposition into Hamilton cycles then \(G\otimes H\) has a one-factorization. Moreover, they show that \(K_ n\otimes H\) has a one-factorization when \(n\) is a prime power and \(H\) is \(n\)-regular (when \(n\) is a power of 2, this is not covered by the earlier result). The reader may wish to consult the paper of \textit{J. D. Horton} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 39, 117-131 (1985; Zbl 0584.05056)] in which it was shown that if \(G\) has a one-factorization and \(H\) is regular then \(G\otimes H\) has a one-factorization.











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