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Tiling transitive tournaments and their blow-ups

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Let TTkTT_k denote the transitive tournament on kk vertices. Let TT(h,k)TT(h,k) denote the graph obtained from TTkTT_k by replacing each vertex with an independent set of size h1h \geq 1. The following result is proved: Let c2=1/2c_2=1/2, c3=5/6c_3=5/6 and ck=12klogkc_k=1-2^{-k-\log k} for k4k \geq 4. For every ϵ>0\epsilon > 0 there exists N=N(ϵ,h,k)N=N(\epsilon,h,k) such that for every undirected graph GG with n>Nn > N vertices and with δ(G)ckn\delta(G) \geq c_kn, every orientation of GG contains vertex disjoint copies of TT(h,k)TT(h,k) that cover all but at most ϵn\epsilon n vertices. In the cases k=2k=2 and k=3k=3 the result is asymptotically tight. For k4k \geq 4, ckc_k cannot be improved to less than 120.5k(1+o(1))1-2^{-0.5k(1+o(1))}.

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@article{arxiv.math/0210338,
  title  = {Tiling transitive tournaments and their blow-ups},
  author = {Raphael Yuster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0210338},
  year   = {2007}
}

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