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The Buratti-Horak-Rosa Conjecture Holds for Some Underlying Sets of Size Three

Combinatorics 2022-02-17 v1

Abstract

The Buratti-Horak-Rosa Conjecture concerns the possible multisets of edge-labels of a Hamiltonian path in the complete graph with vertex labels 0,1,,v10, 1, \ldots, {v-1} under a particular induced edge-labeling. The conjecture has been shown to hold when the underlying set of the multiset has size at most~2, is a subset of {1,2,3,4}\{1,2,3,4\} or {1,2,3,5}\{1,2,3,5\}, or is {1,2,6}\{1,2,6\}, {1,2,8}\{1,2,8\} or {1,4,5}\{1,4,5\}, as well as partial results for many other underlying sets. We use the method of growable realizations to show that the conjecture holds for each underlying set U={x,y,z}U = \{ x,y,z \} when max(U)7\max(U) \leq 7 or when xyz24xyz \leq 24, with the possible exception of U={1,2,11}U = \{1,2,11\}. We also show that for any even xx the validity of the conjecture for the underlying set {1,2,x}\{ 1,2,x \} follows from the validity of the conjecture for finitely many multisets with this underlying set.

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@article{arxiv.2202.07733,
  title  = {The Buratti-Horak-Rosa Conjecture Holds for Some Underlying Sets of Size Three},
  author = {Pranit Chand and M. A. Ollis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07733},
  year   = {2022}
}

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