Title
A 'Hot Potato' Gray Code for Permutations.
Abstract
We give the n! permutations of [n]={1,2,…,n} a cyclic order inspired by the childrenʼs game of Hot Potato. Our order is a transposition Gray code, meaning that consecutive permutations differ by a single transposition. Furthermore, each transposition is restricted in two ways: (1) It must transpose value n (the “hot potato”); (2) It must transpose positions that are circularly adjacent or semi-adjacent. In other words, if each permutation is written circularly, then our order repeatedly transposes the value n with a value that is one or two positions to its left or right.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.endm.2013.10.014
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gray code,permutation,star transposition,adjacent transposition,vertex transitive graph,Hamilton cycle,Lovász conjecture
Transposition (music),Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Cyclic order,Transpose,Permutation,Gray code,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
44
1571-0653
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Sisi Shen100.34
Aaron Williams213920.42