The problem of decomposing a complete 3-uniform hypergraph into Hamilton cycles was introduced by Bailey and Stevens using a generalization of Hamiltonian chain to uniform hypergraphs by Katona and Kierstead. Decompos...The problem of decomposing a complete 3-uniform hypergraph into Hamilton cycles was introduced by Bailey and Stevens using a generalization of Hamiltonian chain to uniform hypergraphs by Katona and Kierstead. Decomposing the complete 3-uniform hypergraphs Kn（3） into k-cycles （3 ≤ k 〈 n） was then considered by Meszka and Rosa. This study investigates this problem using a difference pattern of combinatorics and shows that Kn·5m（3） can be decomposed into 5-cycles for n ∈ {5, 7, 10, 11, 16, 17, 20, 22, 26} using computer programming.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11161032)
文摘The problem of decomposing a complete 3-uniform hypergraph into Hamilton cycles was introduced by Bailey and Stevens using a generalization of Hamiltonian chain to uniform hypergraphs by Katona and Kierstead. Decomposing the complete 3-uniform hypergraphs Kn（3） into k-cycles （3 ≤ k 〈 n） was then considered by Meszka and Rosa. This study investigates this problem using a difference pattern of combinatorics and shows that Kn·5m（3） can be decomposed into 5-cycles for n ∈ {5, 7, 10, 11, 16, 17, 20, 22, 26} using computer programming.
