The graph Cartesian product of a complete graph
and a cycle
graph
has been termed a "KC graph" by Knuth (2024, p. 22), who restricts
their parameters to
and
. The KC graphs are regular
with degree
and have vertex count and edge
count
(1)
| |||
(2)
|
Many KC graphs are circulant graphs. In particular, for any (i.e., relatively
prime so as not to contain a common divisor),
is isomorphic to the circulant
graph
,
where the indices are a subset of integer multiples of
and
less than or equal to
.
Other special cases are summarized in the table below.
graph | special case |
cycle graph | |
prism
graph | |
rook graph | |
generalized
quadrangle | |
is ungraceful
for
odd (Knuth 2024, p. 22).
The scramble number of the KC graph with
and
is
(Echavarria et al. 2021).