A bijection between aperiodic palindromes and connected circulant graphs

Abstract

In this paper, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of compositions (resp. prime compositions) of $n$ and the set of circulant digraphs (resp. connected circulant digraphs) of order $n$. We also show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of palindromes (resp. aperiodic palindromes) of $n$ and the set of circulant graphs (resp. connected circulant graphs) of order $n$. As a corollary of this correspondence, we enumerate the number of connected circulant (di)graphs of order $n$.