Bicyclic Directed Triple Systems

Robert B.Gardner1
1 Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

Abstract

A directed triple system of order \(v\), denoted \(\text{DTS}(v)\), is said to be bicyclic if it admits an automorphism whose disjoint cyclic decomposition consists of two cycles. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of bicyclic \(\text{DTS}(v)\)s.