{ "id": "2011.03929", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-11-08T09:05:53.000Z", "updated": "2020-11-08T09:05:53.000Z", "title": "Connectivity keeping paths in $k$-connected bipartite graphs", "authors": [ "Lian Luo", "Yingzhi Tian", "Liyun Wu" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "In 2010, Mader [W. Mader, Connectivity keeping paths in $k$-connected graphs, J. Graph Theory 65 (2010) 61-69.] proved that every $k$-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $\\lfloor\\frac{3k}{2}\\rfloor+m-1$ contains a path $P$ of order $m$ such that $G-V(P)$ is still $k$-connected. In this paper, we consider similar problem for bipartite graphs, and prove that every $k$-connected bipartite graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+m$ contains a path $P$ of order $m$ such that $G-V(P)$ is still $k$-connected.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-11-08T09:05:53.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "connectivity keeping paths", "connected bipartite graph", "minimum degree", "connected graph", "graph theory" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }