Two Kinds of Equipackable Paths and Cycles

Liandi Zhang1, Yuqin Zhang1
1Department of Mathematics Tianjin University, 300072, Tianjin, China

Abstract

A graph \(G\) is called \(H\)-equipackable if every maximal \(H\)-packing in \(G\) is also a maximum \(H\)-packing in \(G\). In 2009, \(P_4\)-equipackable paths and cycles, \(M_3\)-equipackable paths and cycles have been characterized. In this paper, \(P_k\)-equipackable paths and cycles, \(M_k\)-equipackable paths and cycles are characterized.