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Paired $(n-1)$-to-$(n-1)$ disjoint path covers in bipartite transposition-like graphs

Combinatorics 2025-08-22 v1

Abstract

A paired kk-to-kk disjoint path cover of a graph GG is a collection of pairwise disjoint path subgraphs P1,P2,,PkP_1,P_2,\dotsc,P_k such that each PiP_i has prescribed vertices sis_i and tit_i as endpoints and the union of P1,P2,,PkP_1,P_2,\dotsc,P_k contains all vertices of GG. In this paper, we introduce bipartite transposition-like graphs, which are inductively constructed from lower ranked bipartite transposition-like graphs. We show that every rank nn bipartite transposition-like graph GG admit a paired (n1)(n-1)-to-(n1)(n-1) disjoint path cover for all choices of S={s1,s2,,sn1}S=\{s_1,s_2,\dotsc,s_{n-1}\} and T={t1,t2,,tn1}T=\{t_1,t_2,\dotsc,t_{n-1}\}, provided that SS is in one partite set of GG and TT is in the other.

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@article{arxiv.2402.11381,
  title  = {Paired $(n-1)$-to-$(n-1)$ disjoint path covers in bipartite transposition-like graphs},
  author = {Anna Coleman and Gabrielle Fischberg and Charles Gong and Joshua Harrington and Tony W. H. Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11381},
  year   = {2025}
}