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and Heather Gavlas established necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a decomposition of a
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permutations
Cycle decomposition (group theory)
graph theory
partitioning
cycles
Brian Alspach
complete graph
1-factor
perfect matching
Cayley graphs
circulant graphs
permutation
"Cycle Decompositions of K n {\displaystyle K_{n}} and K n I {\displaystyle K_{n}{-}I}  "
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10.1006/jctb.2000.1996
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978-1-84628-969-9
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