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Decomposing highly edge-connected graphs into paths of any given length

Combinatorics 2015-09-23 v1

Abstract

In 2006, Bar\'at and Thomassen posed the following conjecture: for each tree TT, there exists a natural number kTk_T such that, if GG is a kTk_T-edge-connected graph and E(G)|E(G)| is divisible by E(T)|E(T)|, then GG admits a decomposition into copies of TT. This conjecture was verified for stars, some bistars, paths of length 33, 55, and 2r2^r for every positive integer rr. We prove that this conjecture holds for paths of any fixed length.

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@article{arxiv.1509.06393,
  title  = {Decomposing highly edge-connected graphs into paths of any given length},
  author = {Fabio Botler and Guilherme O. Mota and Marcio T. I. Oshiro and Yoshiko Wakabayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06393},
  year   = {2015}
}
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