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Western Michigan University

Theses/Dissertations

1994

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Average Genus Of The Cube, Jody Koenemann Apr 1994

Average Genus Of The Cube, Jody Koenemann

Honors Theses

In recent years, there has been interest in the mathematical community in a rapidly developing branch of theoretical mathematics known as random topological graph theory. This new area of mathematics explores the different ways in which certain graphs can be imbedded in given surfaces. The random nature of the new branch results when one also imposes a random distribution on set of all imbeddings of a fixed graph, via the orientation of the edges at each vertex. Using the technique of J. Edmonds, developed in 1960, this paper explores the imbeddings for the graph Q3 using a particular group …


Third Order Degree Regular Graphs, Leslie D. Hayes Apr 1994

Third Order Degree Regular Graphs, Leslie D. Hayes

Honors Theses

A graph G is regular of degree d if for every vertex v in G there exist exactly d vertices at distance 1 from v. A graph G is kth order regular of degree d if for every vertex v in G, there exist exactly d vertices at distance k from v. In this paper, third order regular graphs of degree 1 with small order are characterized.