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Hamiltonian cycles in Cayley graph on alternating group

Let $G=\operatorname{Cay}(A_n,S)$ be the Cayley graph on the Alternating group $A_n\quad n\ge4$ with generating set $S=\{(1,2,3),(1,2,4),\ldots,(1,4,2),(1,3,2)\}$. One Hamiltonian cycle in $G$ for $n=4$ is found as $e-(1,2,3)-(1,3,2)-(1,3,4)-(1,3)(2,4)-(1,2,4)-(2,4,3)-(1,4,3)-(1,2)(3,4)-(2,3,4)-(1,4)(2,3)-(1,4,2)-e$.

The pattern I used to find the Hamiltonian cycle was to multiply successively by $(1,2,3),(1,2,3),(1,2,4),(1,2,4),(1,3,2),(1,3,2),(1,4,2),(1,4,2),(1,3,2),(14,2),(1,2,3),(1,2,4)$.

My question is, is there a similar algorithm for generating Hamiltonian cycle in higher order alternating groups? I also think the graphs can be partitioned into edge-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles (this is true for the case of $A_4$). Is this true? Thanks beforehand.

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