Cycle decomposition

A cycle decomposition in mathematics may refer to one of two related concepts.

• In graph theory, a cycle decomposition is a partitioning of the vertices of a graph into subsets, such that the vertices in each subset lie on a cycle.

• In combinatorics, a cycle decomposition is a way of writing a permutation as a number of disjoint cycles.

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