Cartesian products of graphs as subgraphs of de Bruijn graphs of dimension at least three Original Research Article

Given a Cartesian product G = G1 × … × Gm (m ⩾ 2) of nontrivial connected graphs Gi and the base d, dimension D de Bruijn graph B(d, D), it is investigated under which conditions G is (or is not) a subgraph of B(d, D). We present a complete solution of this problem for the case D ⩾ 4. For D = 3, we give partial results including a complete solution for the case that G is a torus, i.e., G is the Cartesian product of cycles.