The connectedness of friends-and-strangers graphs about graph parameters and others
Combinatorics
2025-04-02 v1
Abstract
Let and be two graphs of order . The friends-and-strangers graph of and is a graph whose vertex set consists of all bijections , in which two bijections and are adjacent if and only if they agree on all but two adjacent vertices of such that the corresponding images are adjacent in . 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 and vertex connectivity that ensures the graph is -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 , where .
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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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24 pages, 1 figure