Towards an edge-coloured Corr\'adi--Hajnal theorem
Combinatorics
2024-08-21 v1
Abstract
A classical result of Corr\'adi and Hajnal states that every graph on vertices with and contains a perfect triangle-tiling, i.e.,\ a spanning set of vertex-disjoint triangles. We explore a generalisation of this result to edge-coloured graphs. Let be an edge-coloured graph on vertices. The minimum colour degree of is the largest integer such that, for every vertex , there are at least distinct colours on edges incident to . We show that if , then has a spanning set of vertex-disjoint rainbow triangles. On the other hand, we find an example showing the bound should be at least . We also discuss a related tiling problems on digraphs, which may be of independent interest.
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@article{arxiv.2408.10651,
title = {Towards an edge-coloured Corr\'adi--Hajnal theorem},
author = {Allan Lo and Ella Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10651},
year = {2024}
}