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Tiling tripartite graphs with 3-colorable graphs

Combinatorics 2016-05-24 v2

Abstract

For a fixed integer h>=1, let G be a tripartite graph with N vertices in each vertex class, N divisible by 6h, such that every vertex is adjacent to at least 2N/3+h-1 vertices in each of the other classes. We show that if N is sufficiently large, then G can be tiled perfectly by copies of K_{h,h,h}. This extends the work in [19] and also gives a sufficient condition for tiling by any (fixed) 3-colorable graph. Furthermore, we show that this minimum-degree condition is best possible and provide very tight bounds when N is divisible by h but not by 6h.

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@article{arxiv.0804.4154,
  title  = {Tiling tripartite graphs with 3-colorable graphs},
  author = {Ryan R. Martin and Yi Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4154},
  year   = {2016}
}

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39 pages, 10 figures

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