Disjoint Cycle
A collection of cycles in is disjoint if no element in appears in two or more of the cycles, i.e., none of the cycles share any elements in common: they are pairwise disjoint.
Example
The cycles and are disjoint, but not and ,
A collection of cycles in is disjoint if no element in appears in two or more of the cycles, i.e., none of the cycles share any elements in common: they are pairwise disjoint.
Example
The cycles and are disjoint, but not and ,