English

Escaping from the corner of a grid by edge disjoint paths

Combinatorics 2017-08-21 v1

Abstract

Let QQ be a finite subgraph of the integer grid GG in the plane, and let TT be a set of pairs of distinct vertices in GG, called `terminal pairs'. Escaping a subset XTQX\subset T\cap Q from QQ means finding edge disjoint paths from the terminals in XX into distinct vertices of a set LL in the boundary of QQ. Here we prove several lemmas for the cases where QQ is a 3×33\times 3 grid, LL is the union of a vertical and horizontal boundary line of QQ, furthermore, TT is a set of four terminal pairs in GG such that TQ5|T\cap Q|\geq 5. These lemmas are applied in [4] and complete the proof that the Cartesian product of two (one way) infinite paths has path-pairability number four.

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@article{arxiv.1708.05413,
  title  = {Escaping from the corner of a grid by edge disjoint paths},
  author = {Adam S. Jobson and André E. Kézdy and Jenő Lehel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05413},
  year   = {2017}
}