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Covering 2-connected 3-regular graphs with disjoint paths (1806.07014v1)
Published 19 Jun 2018 in math.CO
Abstract: A path cover of a graph is a set of disjoint paths so that every vertex in the graph is contained in one of the paths. The path cover number $p(G)$ of graph $G$ is the cardinality of a path cover with the minimum number of paths. Reed in 1996 conjectured that a $2$-connected $3$-regular graph has path cover number at most $\lceil n/10\rceil$. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture.
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