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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

A typical decomposition question asks whether the edges of some graph $G$ can be partitioned into disjoint copies of another graph $H$. One of the oldest and best known conjectures in this area, posed by Ringel in 1963, concerns the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Richard Montgomery , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

In the 1960's, Erd\H{o}s and Gallai conjectured that the edges of any $n$-vertex graph can be decomposed into $O(n)$ cycles and edges. We improve upon the previous best bound of $O(n\log\log n)$ cycles and edges due to Conlon, Fox and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Matija Bucić , Richard Montgomery

The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture asserts that the edges of every graph without isolated edges can be weighted with $1$, $2$ and $3$ so that adjacent vertices receive distinct weighted degrees. This is open in general. We prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Julien Bensmail , Jakub Przybyło

Tibor Gallai conjectured that the edge set of every connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices can be partitioned into $\lceil n/2\rceil$ paths. Let $\mathcal{G}_{k}$ be the class of all $2k$-regular graphs of girth at least $2k-2$ that admit a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Fábio Botler , Andrea Jiménez

We prove the well-known Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os Conjecture for hypergraphs of large uniformity in the following form: any dense linear $r$-graph $G$ has $k$ edges spanning at most $(r-2)k+3$ vertices, provided the uniformity $r$ of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Peter Keevash , Jason Long

We prove that an eulerian graph $G$ admits a decomposition into $k$ closed trails of odd length if and only if and it contains at least $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint odd circuits and $k\equiv |E(G)|\pmod{2}$. We conjecture that a connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Edita Máčajová , Martin Škoviera

Substantial efforts have been made to compute or estimate the minimum number $c(G)$ of cycles needed to partition the edges of an Eulerian graph. We give an equivalent characterization of Eulerian graphs of treewidth $2$ and with maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Irene Heinrich , Sven O. Krumke

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$. A path decomposition $\mathcal{P}$ of $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint paths that covers all the edges of $G$. Let $p(G)$ denote the minimum number of paths needed in a path decomposition of $G$. Gallai…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Xiaohong Chen , Baoyindureng Wu

As a natural extension of the Four Color Theorem, Haj\'{o}s conjectured that graphs containing no $K_5$-subdivision are 4-colorable. Any possible counterexample to this conjecture with minimum number of vertices is called a {\it Haj\'{o}s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Qiqin Xie , Shijie Xie , Xiaofan Yuan , Xingxing Yu

A classic theorem of Dirac from 1952 states that every graph with minimum degree at least n/2 contains a Hamiltonian cycle. In 1963, P\'osa conjectured that every graph with minimum degree at least 2n/3 contains the square of a Hamiltonian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Louis DeBiasio , Safi Faizullah , Imdadullah Khan

Wu in 1999 conjectured that if $H$ is a subgraph of the complete graph $K_{2n+1}$ with $n$ edges, then there is a Hamiltonian cycle decomposition of $K_{2n+1}$ such that each edge of $H$ is in a separate Hamiltonian cycle. The conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Ramin Javadi , Meysam Miralaei

An extremal graph for a given graph $H$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $s,t$ be integers and let $H_{s,t}$ be a graph consisting of $s$ triangles and $t$ cycles of odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Xinmin Hou , Yu Qiu , Boyuan Liu

It was conjectured by Haj\'{o}s that graphs containing no $K_5$-subdivision are 4-colorable. Previous results show that any possible minimum counterexample to Haj\'{o}s' conjecture, called Haj\'{o}s graph, is 4-connected but not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Qiqin Xie , Shijie Xie , Xingxing Yu , Xiaofan Yuan

In a recent paper, we showed that every sufficiently large regular digraph G on n vertices whose degree is linear in n and which is a robust outexpander has a decomposition into edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. The main consequence of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-01 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Let $r \ge 3$ be fixed and $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph. A long-standing conjecture of Gy\H{o}ri states that if $e(G) = t_{r-1}(n) + k$, where $t_{r-1}(n)$ denotes the number of edges of the Tur\'{a}n graph on $n$ vertices and $r - 1$ parts,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 József Balogh , Michael C. Wigal

We show that every $3$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $|V(H)|=n$ and minimum pair degree at least $(4/5+o(1))n$ contains a squared Hamiltonian cycle. This may be regarded as a first step towards a hypergraph version of the P\'osa-Seymour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Wiebke Bedenknecht , Christian Reiher

The Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'{o}s conjecture, one of the central conjectures in extremal combinatorics, states that for any integer $m\geq 6,$ if a 3-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices contains no $m$ vertices spanning at least $m-3$ edges, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Jozsef Solymosi , Ching Wong

Hoffmann-Ostenhof's Conjecture states that states that the edge set of every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a matching and a $2$-regular subgraph. In this paper, we show that the conjecture holds for claw-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Milad Ahanjideh , Elham Aboomahigir

We consider edge decompositions of the $n$-dimensional hypercube $Q_n$ into isomorphic copies of a given graph $H$. While a number of results are known about decomposing $Q_n$ into graphs from various classes, the simplest cases of paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Maria Axenovich , David Offner , Casey Tompkins