On subgraphs of Cartesian product graphs Original Research Article

Graphs which can be represented as nontrivial subgraphs of Cartesian product graphs are characterized. As a corollary it is shown that any bipartite, K2,3-free graph of radius 2 has such a representation. An infinite family of graphs which have no such representation and contain no proper representable subgraph is also constructed. Only a finite number of such graphs have been previously known.