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A recursive circulant graph G(N,d) has N = cdm vertices labeled from 0 to N - 1, where d ⩾ 2, m ⩾ 1, and 1 ⩽ c < d, and two vertices x,y ∈ G(N,d) are adjacent if and only if there is an integer k with 0 ⩽ k ⩽ ⌈ log d N⌉ - 1 such that x ± dk ≡ y ( mod N). With the aid of recursive structure, such class of graphs has many attractive features and was considered as a topology of interconnection networks for computing systems. The design of multiple independent spanning trees (ISTs) has many applications in network communication. For instance, it is useful for fault-tolerant broadcasting and secure message distribution. In the previous work of Yang et al. (2009), we provided a constructing scheme to build k ISTs on G(cdm,d) with d ⩾ 3, where k is the connectivity of G(cdm,d). However, the proposed constructing rules cannot be applied to the case of d = 2. For the integrity of solving the IST problem on recursive circulant graphs, this paper deals with the case of G(2m,2) using a set of different constructing rules. Especially, we show that the heights of ISTs for G(2m,2) are lower than the known optimal construction of hypercubes with the same number of vertices.

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SUMMARYLet T 1 , T 2 , . . . , T k be spanning trees in a graph G. If, for any two vertices u, v of G, the paths joining u and v on the k trees are mutually vertex-disjoint, then T 1 , T 2 , . . . , T k are called completely independent spanning trees (CISTs for short) of G. The construction of CISTs can be applied in fault-tolerant broadcasting and secure message distribution on interconnection networks. Hasunuma (2001) first introduced the concept of CISTs and conjectured that there are k CISTs in any 2k-connected graph. Unfortunately, this conjecture was disproved by Péterfalvi recently. In this note, we give a necessary condition for k-connected k-regular graphs with k/2 CISTs. Based on this condition, we provide more counterexamples for Hasunuma's conjecture. By contrast, we show that there are two CISTs in 4-regular chordal rings CR (N, d) with N = k(d − 1) + j under the condition that k 4 is even and 0 j 4. In particular, the diameter of each constructed CIST is derived.

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