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Minimum degree thresholds for bipartite graph tiling

Combinatorics 2014-10-20 v1

Abstract

For any bipartite graph HH, we determine a minimum degree threshold for a balanced bipartite graph GG to contain a perfect HH-tiling. We show that this threshold is best possible up to a constant depending only on HH. Additionally, we prove a corresponding minimum degree threshold to guarantee that GG has an HH-tiling missing only a constant number of vertices. Our threshold for the perfect tiling depends on either the chromatic number χ(H)\chi(H) or the critical chromatic number χcr(H)\chi_{cr}(H) while the threshold for the almost perfect tiling only depends on χcr(H)\chi_{cr}(H). Our results answer two questions of Zhao. They can be viewed as bipartite analogs to the results of Kuhn and Osthus and of Shokoufandeh and Zhao.

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@article{arxiv.1410.4585,
  title  = {Minimum degree thresholds for bipartite graph tiling},
  author = {Albert Bush and Yi Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4585},
  year   = {2014}
}
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