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Graph tilings in incompatibility systems

Combinatorics 2023-04-18 v2

Abstract

An \emph{incompatibility system} (G,F)(G,\mathcal{F}) consists of a graph GG and a family F={Fv}vV(G)\mathcal{F}=\{F_v\}_{v\in V(G)} over GG with Fv{{e,e}(E(G)2):ee={v}}F_v\subseteq \{\{e,e'\}\in {E(G)\choose 2}: e\cap e'=\{v\}\}. We say that two edges e,eE(G)e,e'\in E(G) are \emph{incompatible} if {e,e}Fv\{e,e'\}\in F_v for some vV(G)v\in V(G), and otherwise \emph{compatible}. A subgraph HH of GG is \emph{compatible} if every pair of edges in HH are compatible. An incompatibility system (G,F)(G,\mathcal{F}) is \emph{Δ\Delta-bounded} if for any vertex vv and any edge ee incident with vv, there are at most Δ\Delta members of FvF_v containing ee. This notion was partly motivated by a concept of transition system introduced by Kotzig in 1968, and first formulated by Krivelevich, Lee and Sudakov to study the robustness of Hamiltonicity of Dirac graphs. We prove that for any α>0\alpha>0 and any graph HH with hh vertices, there exists a constant μ>0\mu>0 such that for any sufficiently large nn with nhNn\in h\mathbb{N}, if GG is an nn-vertex graph with δ(G)(11χ(H)+α)n\delta(G)\ge(1-\frac{1}{\chi^*(H)}+\alpha)n and (G,F)(G,\mathcal{F}) is a μn\mu n-bounded incompatibility system, then there exists a compatible HH-factor in GG, where the value χ(H)\chi^*(H) is either the chromatic number χ(H)\chi(H) or the critical chromatic number χcr(H)\chi_{cr}(H) and we provide a dichotomy as in the K\"{u}hn--Osthus result. Moreover, we give examples HH for which there exists an μn\mu n-bounded incompatibility system (G,F)(G, \mathcal{F}) with nhNn\in h\mathbb{N} and δ(G)(11χ(H)+μ2)n\delta(G)\ge(1-\frac{1}{\chi^*(H)}+\frac{\mu}{2})n such that GG contains no compatible HH-factor. Unlike in the previous work of K\"{u}hn and Osthus on embedding HH-factors, our proof uses the lattice-based absorption method.

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@article{arxiv.2207.05386,
  title  = {Graph tilings in incompatibility systems},
  author = {Jie Hu and Hao Li and Yue Wang and Donglei Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05386},
  year   = {2023}
}
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