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Packing spanning graphs from separable families

Combinatorics 2016-06-01 v2

Abstract

Let G\mathcal G be a separable family of graphs. Then for all positive constants ϵ\epsilon and Δ\Delta and for every sufficiently large integer nn, every sequence G1,,GtGG_1,\dotsc,G_t\in\mathcal G of graphs of order nn and maximum degree at most Δ\Delta such that e(G1)++e(Gt)(1ϵ)(n2)e(G_1)+\dotsb+e(G_t) \leq (1-\epsilon)\binom{n}{2} packs into KnK_n. This improves results of B\"ottcher, Hladk\'y, Piguet, and Taraz when G\mathcal G is the class of trees and of Messuti, R\"odl, and Schacht in the case of a general separable family. The result also implies approximate versions of the Oberwolfach problem and of the Tree Packing Conjecture of Gy\'arf\'as (1976) for the case that all trees have maximum degree at most Δ\Delta. The proof uses the local resilience of random graphs and a special multi-stage packing procedure.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08701,
  title  = {Packing spanning graphs from separable families},
  author = {Asaf Ferber and Choongbum Lee and Frank Mousset},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08701},
  year   = {2016}
}
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