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Tiling tripartite graphs with 3-colorable graphs: The extreme case

Combinatorics 2018-08-14 v4

Abstract

There is a sufficiently large NhNN\in h\mathbb{N} such that the following holds. If GG is a tripartite graph with NN vertices in each vertex class such that every vertex is adjacent to at least 2N/3+2h12N/3+2h-1 vertices in each of the other classes, then GG can be tiled perfectly by copies of Kh,h,hK_{h,h,h}. This extends work by two of the authors [Electron. J. Combin, 16(1), 2009] and also gives a sufficient condition for tiling by any fixed 3-colorable graph. Furthermore, we show that 2N/3+2h12N/3+2h-1 in our result can not be replaced by 2N/3+h22N/3+ h-2 and that if NN is divisible by 6h6h, then we can replace it with the value 2N/3+h12N/3+h-1 and this is tight.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1002,
  title  = {Tiling tripartite graphs with 3-colorable graphs: The extreme case},
  author = {Kirsten Hogenson and Ryan R. Martin and Yi Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1002},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

29 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0804.4154

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