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
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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 | |
for , | torus grid graph graph |
is ungraceful for odd (Knuth 2024, p. 22).
The scramble number of the KC graph with and is (Echavarria et al. 2021).