Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4654223 | European Journal of Combinatorics | 2010 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
The paper describes a construction of abstract polytopes from Cayley graphs of symmetric groups. Given any connected graph GG with pp vertices and qq edges, we associate with GG a Cayley graph G(G)G(G) of the symmetric group SpSp and then construct a vertex-transitive simple polytope of rank qq, the graphicahedron , whose 1-skeleton (edge graph) is G(G)G(G). The graphicahedron of a graph GG is a generalization of the well-known permutahedron; the latter is obtained when the graph is a path. We also discuss symmetry properties of the graphicahedron and determine its structure when GG is small.
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Authors
Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Maria Del Río-Francos, Mariana López-Dudet, Deborah Oliveros, Egon Schulte,