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Fractional triangle decompositions in graphs with large minimum degree

Combinatorics 2015-07-22 v3

Abstract

A triangle decomposition of a graph is a partition of its edges into triangles. A fractional triangle decomposition of a graph is an assignment of a non-negative weight to each of its triangles such that the sum of the weights of the triangles containing any given edge is one. We prove that for all ϵ>0\epsilon > 0, every large enough graph graph on nn vertices with minimum degree at least (0.9+ϵ)n(0.9 + \epsilon)n has a fractional triangle decomposition. This improves a result of Garaschuk that the same result holds for graphs with minimum degree at least 0.956n0.956n. Together with a recent result of Barber, K\"{u}hn, Lo and Osthus, this implies that for all ϵ>0\epsilon > 0, every large enough triangle divisible graph on nn vertices with minimum degree at least (0.9+ϵ)n(0.9 + \epsilon)n admits a triangle decomposition.

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@article{arxiv.1503.08191,
  title  = {Fractional triangle decompositions in graphs with large minimum degree},
  author = {François Dross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.08191},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure

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