English

On decomposing complete tripartite graphs into 5-cycles

Combinatorics 2019-07-16 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

The problem of finding necessary and sufficient conditions to decompose a complete tripartite graph Kr,s,tK_{r,s,t} into 5-cycles was first considered by E.S. Mahmoodian and Maryam Mirzakhani (1995). They stated some necessary conditions and conjectured that those conditions are also sufficient. Since then, many cases of the problem have been solved by various authors; however, the case when the partite sets rstr\leq s\leq t have odd and distinct sizes remained open. We show the conjecture is true when rr, ss and tt are all multiples of 5, t+904rsr+st+90 \leq \frac{4rs}{r+s}, and ts+10t \neq s+10.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.06187,
  title  = {On decomposing complete tripartite graphs into 5-cycles},
  author = {M. Abdolmaleki and S. Gh. Ilchi and E. S. Mahmoodian and MA. Shabani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06187},
  year   = {2019}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-23T10:20:29.862Z