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Regular packing of rooted hyperforests with root constraints in hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2024-11-26 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The seminal papers of Edmonds \cite{Egy}, Nash-Williams \cite{NW} and Tutte \cite{Tu} have laid the foundations of the theories of packing arborescences and packing trees. The directed version has been extensively investigated, resulting in a great number of generalizations. In contrast, the undirected version has been marginally considered. The aim of this paper is to further develop the theories of packing trees and forests. Our main result on graphs characterizes the existence of a packing of kk forests, F1,,FkF_1, \ldots, F_k, in a graph GG such that each vertex of GG belongs to exactly hh of the forests, and in addition, each FiF_i has between (i)\ell(i) and (i)\ell'(i) connected components and the total number of connected components in the packing is between α\alpha and β\beta. Finally, we extend this result to hypergraphs and dypergraphs, the latter giving a generalization of a theorem of B\'erczi and Frank \cite{BF3}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13341,
  title  = {Regular packing of rooted hyperforests with root constraints in hypergraphs},
  author = {Pierre Hoppenot and Mathis Martin and Zoltán Szigeti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13341},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages

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