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Progress towards generalized Nash-Williams' conjecture on $K_4$-decompositions

Combinatorics 2025-10-10 v1

Abstract

A K4K_4-decomposition of a graph is a partition of its edges into K4K_4s. A fractional K4K_4-decomposition is an assignment of a nonnegative weight to each K4K_4 in a graph such that the sum of the weights of the K4K_4s containing any given edge is one. Formulating a nonlinear programming and reducing the number of variables slowly, we prove that every graph on nn vertices with minimum degree at least 3133n\frac{31}{33}n has a fractional K4K_4-decomposition. This improves a result of Montgomery that the same conclusion holds for graphs with minimum degree at least 399400n\frac{399}{400}n. Together with a result of Barber, K\"uhn, Lo, and Osthus, this result implies that for all ε>0\varepsilon> 0, every large enough K4K_4-divisible graph on nn vertices with minimum degree at least (3133+ε)n(\frac{31}{33}+\varepsilon)n admits a K4K_4-decomposition.

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@article{arxiv.2510.07783,
  title  = {Progress towards generalized Nash-Williams' conjecture on $K_4$-decompositions},
  author = {Menglong Zhang and Gennian Ge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.07783},
  year   = {2025}
}
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