The ubiquitous Petersen graph

The ubiquitous Petersen graph

Chartrand, G., H. Hevia and R.J. Wilson, The ubiquitous Petersen graph, Discrete Mathematics 100 (1992) 303-311.

Addressing the Petersen graph

Motivated by a problem on message routing in communication networks, Graham and Pollak proposed a scheme for addressing the vertices of a graph G by N -tuples of three symbols in such a way that distances between vertices may readily be determined from their addresses. They observed that N ≥ h(D), the maximum of the number of positive and the number of negative eigenvalues of the distance matri...

On the Relation between the Petersen Graph

Extending the dual of the Petersen graph

By hypotheses (a) and (c), if {i, j} is a 2-element subset of the type set I of Γ, then there are flags F of co-type {i, j}, such that res(F ) is a rank 2 geometry over the type set {i, j}, and all such {i, j}-residues are isomorphic. Hence, such a geometry Γ can be described by a diagram, in which the types (or even the exact isomorphism types) of all rank-2-residues are listed; this is often ...

On Generalizations of the Petersen Graph and the Coxeter Graph

In this note we consider two related infinite families of graphs, which generalize the Petersen and the Coxeter graph. The main result proves that these graphs are cores. It is determined which of these graphs are vertex/edge/arc-transitive or distance-regular. Girths and odd girths are computed. A problem on hamiltonicity is posed.