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The connectivity of friends-and-strangers graphs on complete multipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2025-01-28 v3

Abstract

For simple graphs XX and YY on nn vertices, the friends-and-strangers graph FS(X,Y)\mathsf{FS}(X,Y) is the graph whose vertex set consists of all bijections σ:V(X)V(Y)\sigma: V(X) \to V(Y), where two bijections σ\sigma and σ\sigma' are adjacent if and only if they agree on all but two adjacent vertices a,bV(X)a, b \in V(X) such that σ(a),σ(b)V(Y)\sigma(a), \sigma(b) \in V(Y) are adjacent in YY. Resolving a conjecture of Wang, Lu, and Chen, we completely characterize the connectedness of FS(X,Y)\mathsf{FS}(X, Y) when YY is a complete bipartite graph. We further extend this result to when YY is a complete multipartite graph. We also determine when FS(X,Y)\mathsf{FS}(X, Y) has exactly two connected components where XX is bipartite and YY is a complete bipartite graph.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08121,
  title  = {The connectivity of friends-and-strangers graphs on complete multipartite graphs},
  author = {Honglin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08121},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages, 23 figures