Approximate Itai-Zehavi conjecture for random graphs
Combinatorics
2025-07-01 v1
Abstract
A famous conjecture by Itai and Zehavi states that, for every -vertex-connected graph and every vertex in , there are spanning trees of such that, for every vertex in , the paths between and in different trees are internally vertex-disjoint. We show that with high probability the Itai-Zehavi conjecture holds asymptotically for the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph when and for random regular graphs when . Moreover, we essentially confirm the conjecture up to a constant factor for sparser random regular graphs. This answers positively a question of Dragani\'{c} and Krivelevich. Our proof makes use of recent developments on sprinkling techniques in random regular graphs.
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@article{arxiv.2506.23970,
title = {Approximate Itai-Zehavi conjecture for random graphs},
author = {Lawrence Hollom and Lyuben Lichev and Adva Mond and Julien Portier and Yiting Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23970},
year = {2025}
}
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25 pages