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Other wheel-based Graphs

(Under construction)

(CnxP2)+K1 graphs

These are like double wheel graphs, but the vertices of the two wheels are joined pairwise. They could alternatively be thought of as a prism CnxP2 with every vertex joined to a common point.

Since every vertex has even degree, these graphs are not graceful if the number of edges is congruent to 1 or 2 mod 4, i.e. if n is congruent to 1 or 2 mod 4. They are graceful for n = 3, 4, 7, 8; we have not yet been able to test any larger values of n. We conjecture that they are graceful whenever n is congruent to 0 or 3 mod 4.

(C8xP2)+K1 with a graceful labelling

Graph A graceful labelling Number of labellings
(C3xP2)+K1 {0;6,15,11;13,1,3} 10
(C4xP2)+K1 {0;1,7,9,19;16,20,17,5} 90
(C7xP2)+K1 {0;1,3,7,12,33,13,31;25,35,26,34,6,29,14} -
(C8xP2)+K1 {0;1,3,7,12,36,6,38,18;11,37,16,35,8,39,25,40} -

3Cn+K1 graphs

These graphs consist of three wheels Wn with a common hub. 3C3+K1 is not graceful; but the graph is graceful, with a large number of graceful labellings, for n = 4, 5, 6.


3C5+K1 with a graceful labelling

Graph A graceful labelling Number of labellings
3C3+K1 - 0
3C4+K1 {0;1,3,7,22;5,18,8,24;6,20,11,23} > 2000
3C5+K1 {0;1,3,11,26,14;4,20,29,10,27;6,28,7,25,30} > 100
3C6+K1 {0;1,3,7,12,20,30;6,32,13,36,9,34;11,33,15,31,14,35} > 100


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Barbara Smith
February 2003