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A long-standing conjecture of Kelly states that every regular tournament on n vertices can be decomposed into (n-1)/2 edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. We prove this conjecture for large n. In fact, we prove a far more general result, based on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We show that for all graphs H of size n, the complete graph $K_{2n+1}$ has an $H$-decomposition.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Jesse Gilbert

A graph is pseudo 2-factor isomorphic if all of its 2-factors have the same parity of number of cycles. Abreu et al. [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B. 98 (2008) 432--442] conjectured that $K_{3,3}$, the Heawood graph and the Pappus graph are the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Marien Abreu , Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken , Federico Romaniello , Tibo Van den Eede

In this paper we prove the following results (via a unified approach) for all sufficiently large $n$: (i) [$1$-factorization conjecture] Suppose that $n$ is even and $D\geq 2\lceil n/4\rceil -1$. Then every $D$-regular graph $G$ on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-23 Béla Csaba , Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Deryk Osthus , Andrew Treglown

We proved that for every sufficiently large $n$, the complete graph $K_{2n}$ with an arbitrary edge signing $\sigma: E(K_{2n}) \to \{-1, +1\}$ admits a high discrepancy $1$-factor decomposition. That is, there exists a universal constant $c…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Jiangdong Ai , Fankang He , Seonghyuk Im , Hyunwoo Lee

Since counting subgraphs in general graphs is, by and large, a computationally demanding problem, it is natural to try and design fast algorithms for restricted families of graphs. One such family that has been extensively studied is that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Lior Gishboliner , Yevgeny Levanzov , Asaf Shapira , Raphael Yuster

In this paper, we investigate the well-studied Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCYCLE), and present an interesting dichotomy result on split graphs. T. Akiyama et al. (1980) have shown that HCYCLE is NP-complete in planar bipartite graphs with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

In this paper we design {\sf FPT}-algorithms for two parameterized problems. The first is \textsc{List Digraph Homomorphism}: given two digraphs $G$ and $H$ and a list of allowed vertices of $H$ for every vertex of $G$, the question is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Eunjung Kim , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We consider the algorithmic problem of generating each subset of $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ whose size is in some interval $[k,l]$, $0\leq k\leq l\leq n$, exactly once (cyclically) by repeatedly adding or removing a single element, or by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Petr Gregor , Torsten Mütze

We study the problems of counting the homomorphisms, counting the copies, and counting the induced copies of a $k$-vertex graph $H$ in a $d$-degenerate $n$-vertex graph $G$. Our main result establishes exhaustive and explicit complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Marco Bressan , Marc Roth

The existence of $1$-factorizations of an infinite complete equipartite graph $K_m[n]$ (with $m$ parts of size $n$) admitting a vertex-regular automorphism group $G$ is known only when $n=1$ and $m$ is countable (that is, for countable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Simone Costa , Tommaso Traetta

Given a graph $G$ and two graph homomorphisms $\alpha$ and $\beta$ from $G$ to a fixed graph $H$, the problem $H$-Recoloring asks whether there is a transformation from $\alpha$ to $\beta$ that changes the image of a single vertex at each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Moritz Mühlenthaler , Mark H. Siggers , Thomas Suzan

Let $k\geq 2$. We show that, for a sufficiently small $\varepsilon>0$, any sufficiently large $n$-vertex Hamiltonian graph of minimum degree at least $n^{1-\varepsilon}$ contains a $2$-factor consisting of exactly $k$ cycles. This is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Alberto Espuny Díaz , António Girão , Bertille Granet , Gal Kronenberg

We consider uniformly resolvable decompositions of $K_v$ into subgraphs such that each resolution class contains only blocks isomorphic to the same graph. We give a partial solution for the case in which all resolution classes are either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Jehyun Lee , Melissa Keranen

We examine the necessary and sufficient conditions for a complete symmetric equipartite digraph $K_{n[m]}^\ast$ with $n$ parts of size $m$ to admit a resolvable decomposition into directed cycles of length $t$. We show that the obvious…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Nevena Francetić , Mateja Šajna

In this paper, we investigate Hamiltonian path problem in the context of split graphs, and produce a dichotomy result on the complexity of the problem. Our main result is a deep investigation of the structure of $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

A Hamiltonian decomposition of a regular graph is a partition of its edge set into Hamiltonian cycles. The problem of finding edge-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in a given regular graph has many applications in combinatorial optimization and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Andrey Kostenko , Andrei Nikolaev

In 1981, Alspach conjectured that the complete graph $ K_{n} $ could be decomposed into cycles of arbitrary lengths, provided that the obvious necessary conditions would hold. This conjecture was proved completely by Bryant, Horsley and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Ramin Javadi , Afsaneh Khodadadpour , Gholamreza Omidi

$H$-Packing is the problem of finding a maximum number of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ in a given graph $G$. $H$-Partition is the special case of finding a set of vertex-disjoint copies that cover each vertex of $G$ exactly once. Our goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Barış Can Esmer , Dániel Marx

A $K_r$-factor of a graph $G$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint $r$-cliques covering $V(G)$. We prove the following algorithmic version of the classical Hajnal--Szemer\'edi Theorem in graph theory, when $r$ is considered as a constant.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Luyining Gan , Jie Han , Jie Hu