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Title: Connectedness of friends-and-strangers graphs of complete bipartite graphs and others

Abstract: Let $X$ and $Y$ be any two graphs of order $n$. The friends-and-strangers graph $\mathsf{FS}(X,Y)$ of $X$ and $Y$ is a graph with vertex set consisting of all bijections $\sigma :V(X) \mapsto V(Y)$, in which two bijections $\sigma$, $\sigma'$ are adjacent if and only if they differ precisely on two adjacent vertices of $X$, and the corresponding mappings are adjacent in $Y$. The most fundamental question that one can ask about these friends-and-strangers graphs is whether or not they are connected. Let $K_{k,n-k}$ be a complete bipartite graph of order $n$. In 1974, Wilson characterized the connectedness of $\mathsf{FS}(K_{1,n-1},Y)$ by using algebraic methods. In this paper, by using combinatorial methods, we investigate the connectedness of $\mathsf{FS}(K_{k,n-k},Y)$ for any $Y$ and all $k\ge 2$, including $Y$ being a random graph, as suggested by Defant and Kravitz, and pose some open problems.
Subjects: Combinatorics (math.CO)
Cite as: arXiv:2302.00900 [math.CO]
  (or arXiv:2302.00900v1 [math.CO] for this version)

Submission history

From: LanChao Wang [view email]
[v1] Thu, 2 Feb 2023 06:18:32 GMT (328kb,D)

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