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Paired 2-disjoint path covers of burnt pancake graphs with faulty elements

Discrete Mathematics 2023-10-31 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The burnt pancake graph BPnBP_n is the Cayley graph of the hyperoctahedral group using prefix reversals as generators. Let {u,v}\{u,v\} and {x,y}\{x,y\} be any two pairs of distinct vertices of BPnBP_n for n4n\geq 4. We show that there are uvu-v and xyx-y paths whose vertices partition the vertex set of BPnBP_n even if BPnBP_n has up to n4n-4 faulty elements. On the other hand, for every n3n\ge3 there is a set of n2n-2 faulty edges or faulty vertices for which such a fault-free disjoint path cover does not exist.

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@article{arxiv.2310.18831,
  title  = {Paired 2-disjoint path covers of burnt pancake graphs with faulty elements},
  author = {Tomáš Dvořák and Mei-Mei Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.18831},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures