Decomposing 8-regular graphs into paths of length 4
Combinatorics
2016-07-07 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
A -decomposition of a graph is a set of edge-disjoint copies of in that cover the edge set of . Graham and H\"aggkvist (1989) conjectured that any -regular graph admits a -decomposition if is a tree with edges. Kouider and Lonc (1999) conjectured that, in the special case where is the path with edges, admits a -decomposition where every vertex of is the end-vertex of exactly two paths of , and proved that this statement holds when has girth at least . In this paper we verify Kouider and Lonc's Conjecture for paths of length .
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@article{arxiv.1607.01456,
title = {Decomposing 8-regular graphs into paths of length 4},
author = {Fábio Botler and Alexandre Talon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01456},
year = {2016}
}