Intrinsic Chirality of Complete Graphs

Authors

Erica Flapan, Pomona CollegeFollow
Nikolai Weaver, University of California - Los Angeles

Document Type

Article

Department

Mathematics (Pomona)

Publication Date

1992

Keywords

intrinsic chirality, homeomorphism

Abstract

A graph is said to be intrinsically chiral if no embedding of the graph in 3-space is respected by any ambient orientation-reversing homeomorphism. In this note, we characterize those complete graphs that are intrinsically chiral.

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© 1992 American Mathematical Society

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DOI

10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1112490-5

Recommended Citation

E. Flapan and N. Weaver, Intrinsic chirality of complete graphs, Proc. AMS, Vol. 115, No. 1, (1992) 233-236. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1112490-5