Toeplitz systems can be solved efficiently by using iterative methods such as the conjugate gradient algorithm. If a suitable preconditioner is used, the overall cost of the method is O(n logn) arithmetic operations. Circulant matrices are frequently employed for the preconditioning of Toeplitz systems. They can be chosen as preconditioners themselves, or they can be used for the computation of...

We associate to any given circulant complex matrix C another one E(C) such that E(E(C)) = C∗ the transpose conjugate of C. All circulant Hadamard matrices of order 4 satisfy a condition C4 on their eigenvalues, namely, the absolute value of the sum of all eigenvalues is bounded above by 4. We prove by a “descent” that uses our operator E that the only circulant Hadamard matrices of order n > 4,...

For a set D ⊂ Zn, the distance graph Pn(D) has Zn as its vertex set and the edges are between vertices i and j with |i− j| ∈ D. The circulant graph Cn(D) is defined analogously by considering operations modulo n. The minimum feedback vertex set problem consists in finding the smallest number of vertices to be removed in order to cut all cycles in the graph. This paper studies the minimum feedba...

We investigate conditions for isomorphism between circulant graphs and analyze their automorphism group, with special emphasis on loop networks. We give a survey of pertinent published results and answer partially a long-standing conjecture [5] that all degree 4 circulants which are isomorphic are Ad am isomorphic. This paper also surveys solutions to several problems introduced in [9]. In part...

In [18], Farrell and Whitehead investigate circulant graphs that are uniquely characterized by their matching and chromatic polynomials (i.e., graphs that are “matching unique” and “chromatic unique”). They develop a partial classification theorem, by finding all matching unique and chromatic unique circulants on n vertices, for each n ≤ 8. In this paper, we explore circulant graphs that are un...

We introduce circulant matrices that capture the structure of a skew-polynomial ring F[x; θ] modulo the left ideal generated by a polynomial of the type x − a. This allows us to develop an approach to skew-constacyclic codes based on such circulants. Properties of these circulants are derived, and in particular it is shown that the transpose of a certain circulant is a circulant again. This rec...

A 1-factorisation of a graph G is a partition of the edge set of G into 1factors (perfect matchings); a perfect 1-factorisation of G is a 1-factorisation of G in which the union of any two of the 1-factors is a Hamilton cycle in G. It is known that for bipartite 4-regular circulant graphs, having order 2 (mod 4) is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for the existence of a perfect 1-fact...

A k x k matrix A = [aU lover a field F is called circulant if aij = a (j-i) mod k' A [2k ,k l linear code over F = GF (q) is called double-circulant if it is generated by a matrix of the fonn [I A l, where A is a circulant matrix. In this work we ftrst employ the Fourier transform techJ nique to analyze and construct se:veral families of double-circulant codes. The minimum distance of the resul...

We disprove the following conjecture due to Vı́ctor Neumann-Lara: for every pair (r, s) of integers such that r > s > 2, there is an infinite set of circulant tournaments T such that the dichromatic number and the cyclic triangle free disconnection of T are equal to r and s, respectively. Let Fr,s denote the set of circulant tournaments T with dc(T ) = r and − →ω 3 (T ) = s. We show that for eve...

Several isomorphism classes of graph coverings of a graph G have been enumerated by many authors. Kwak and Lee (Canad. J. Math. XLII (1990) 747) enumerated the isomorphism classes of graph bundles and those of n-fold coverings with respect to a group of automorphisms of the base graph G which 9x a spanning tree. Hofmeister (Discrete Math. 98 (1991) 175) independently enumerated the isomorphism ...