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The connectedness of friends-and-strangers graphs about graph parameters and others

Combinatorics 2025-04-02 v1

Abstract

Let XX and YY be two graphs of order nn. The friends-and-strangers graph FS(X,Y)\textup{FS}(X,Y) of XX and YY is a graph whose vertex set consists of all bijections σ:V(X)V(Y)\sigma: V(X)\rightarrow V(Y), in which two bijections σ\sigma and σ \sigma' are adjacent if and only if they agree on all but two adjacent vertices of XX such that the corresponding images are adjacent in YY. The most fundamental question about these friends-and-strangers graphs is whether they are connected. In this paper, we provide a sufficient condition regarding the maximum degree Δ(X)\Delta(X) and vertex connectivity κ(Y)\kappa(Y) that ensures the graph FS(X,Y)\textup{FS}(X,Y) is ss-connected. As a corollary, we improve upon a result by Bangachev and partially confirm a conjecture he proposed. Furthermore, we completely characterize the connectedness of FS(X,Y)\textup{FS}(X,Y), where XDLnk,kX\in\textup{DL}_{n-k,k}.

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@article{arxiv.2504.00373,
  title  = {The connectedness of friends-and-strangers graphs about graph parameters and others},
  author = {Xinghui Zhao and Lihua You and Jifu Lin and Xiaoxue Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.00373},
  year   = {2025}
}

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