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Induced paths in strongly regular graphs

Combinatorics 2023-07-28 v1

Abstract

This paper studies induced paths in strongly regular graphs. We give an elementary proof that a strongly regular graph contains a path P4P_4 as an induced subgraph if and only if it is primitive, i.e. it is neither a complete multipartite graph nor its complement. Also, we investigate when a strongly regular graph has an induced subgraph isomorphic to P5P_5 or its complement, considering several well-known families including Johnson and Kneser graphs, Hamming graphs, Latin square graphs, and block-intersection graphs of Steiner triple systems.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14493,
  title  = {Induced paths in strongly regular graphs},
  author = {Robert F. Bailey and Abigail K. Rowsell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14493},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages

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