The Manhattan product of digraphs

We give a formal definition of a new product of bipartite digraphs, the Manhattan product, and we study some of its main properties. It is shown that when all the factors of the above product are (directed) cycles, then the obtained digraph is the Manhattan street network. To this respect, it is pro...

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Autores: Comellas Padró, Francesc de Paula|||0000-0003-4523-0240, Dalfó Simó, Cristina|||0000-0002-8438-9353, Fiol Mora, Miquel Àngel|||0000-0003-1337-4952
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1223
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/1223
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
Digraph
Bipartite
Product
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
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Sumario:We give a formal definition of a new product of bipartite digraphs, the Manhattan product, and we study some of its main properties. It is shown that when all the factors of the above product are (directed) cycles, then the obtained digraph is the Manhattan street network. To this respect, it is proved that many properties of such networks, such as high symmetries and the presence of Hamiltonian cycles, are shared by the Manhattan product of some digraphs.