Irreducible Non-Metrizable Path Systems in Graphs

Abstract

A path system $\mathcal{P}$ in a graph $G=(V,E)$ is said to be irreducible if there does not exist a partition $V=A\bigsqcup B$ such that $\mathcal{P}$ restricts to a path system on both $G[A]$ and $G[B]$. In this paper, we construct an infinite family of non-metrizable irreducible path systems defined on certain Paley graphs.

7 pages