Fault-tolerant panconnectivity of augmented cubes

The augmented cube AQ _n is a variation of the hypercube Q _n . This paper considers the panconnectivity of AQ _n (n ⩾ 3) with at most 2n−5 faulty vertices and/or edges and shows that, for any two fault-free vertices u and v with distance d in AQ _n , there exist fault-free uv-paths of every length from d + 2 to 2 ⁿ − f − 1, where f is the number of faulty vertices in AQ _n . The proof is based on an inductive construction.