CARMA Discrete Mathematics Seminar
3:00 pm
Wednesday, 6th Apr 2016
V129, Mathematics Building
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Prof. Brian Alspach
(CARMA, The University of Newcastle)
Orthogonalizeable groups
B. Gordon (1961) defined sequenceable groups and G. Ringel (1974) defined R-sequenceable groups. Friedlander, Gordon and Miller conjectured that finite abelian groups are either sequenceable or R-sequenceable. The preceding definitions are special cases of what T. Kalinowski and I are calling an orthogonalizeable group, namely, a group for which every Cayley digraph on the group admits either an orthogonal directed path or an orthogonal directed cycle. I shall go over the history and current status of this topic along with a discussion about the completion of a proof of the FGM conjecture.