Upper Embeddability of Graphs and Products of Transpositions Associated with Edges

Abstract

Given a graph, we associate each edge with the transposition which exchanges the endvertices. Fixing a linear order on the edge set, we obtain a permutation of the vertices. D\'enes proved that the permutation is a full cyclic permutation for any linear order if and only if the graph is a tree. In this article, we characterize graphs having a linear order such that the associated permutation is a full cyclic permutation in terms of graph embeddings. Moreover, we give a counter example for Eden's question about an edge ordering whose associated permutation is the identity.