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Paired many-to-many 2-disjoint path cover of Johnson graphs

Combinatorics 2025-07-22 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Given two 2 disjoint vertex-sets S={u,x}S=\{u,x\} and T={v,y}T=\{v,y\}, a paired many-to-many 2-disjoint path cover joining S and T, is a set of two vertex-disjoint paths with endpoints u,vu,v and x,yx,y, respectively, that cover every vertex of the graph. If the graph has a many-to-many 2-disjoint path cover for any two disjoint vertex-sets SS and TT, then it is called paired 2-coverable. It is known that if a graph is paired 2-coverable, then it must be Hamilton-connected, but the reverse is not true. It has been proved that Johnson graphs J(n,k)J(n,k), 0kn0\le k\le n, are Hamilton-connected by Brian Alspach in [Ars Math. Contemp. 6 (2013) 21--23]. In this paper, we prove that Johnson graphs are paired 2-coverable. Moreover, we obtain that another family of graphs QJ(n,k)QJ(n,k) constructed from Johnson graphs by Alspach are also paired 2-coverable.

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@article{arxiv.2507.15463,
  title  = {Paired many-to-many 2-disjoint path cover of Johnson graphs},
  author = {Jinhao Liu and Huazhong Lü},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15463},
  year   = {2025}
}