Paired many-to-many 2-disjoint path cover of Johnson graphs
Abstract
Given two 2 disjoint vertex-sets and , a paired many-to-many 2-disjoint path cover joining S and T, is a set of two vertex-disjoint paths with endpoints and , 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 and , 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 , , 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 constructed from Johnson graphs by Alspach are also paired 2-coverable.
Cite
@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}
}