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2014 Seating rearrangements on arbitrary graphs
Daryl DeFord
Involve 7(6): 787-805 (2014). DOI: 10.2140/involve.2014.7.787

Abstract

We exhibit a combinatorial model based on seating rearrangements, motivated by some problems proposed in the 1990s by Kennedy, Cooper, and Honsberger. We provide a simpler interpretation of their results on rectangular grids, and then generalize the model to arbitrary graphs. This generalization allows us to pose a variety of well-motivated counting problems on other frequently studied families of graphs.

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Daryl DeFord. "Seating rearrangements on arbitrary graphs." Involve 7 (6) 787 - 805, 2014. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2014.7.787

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Received: 4 November 2013; Revised: 3 January 2014; Accepted: 24 January 2014; Published: 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1306.05098
MathSciNet: MR3284885
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/involve.2014.7.787

Subjects:
Primary: 05C30

Keywords: cycle covers , matrix permanents , recurrence relations , tilings

Rights: Copyright © 2014 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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