Plantholt–Tipnis multigraph 1-factorization conjecture

Let GG be a regular multigraph of order 2n2n, and let its multiplicity be at most rr, meaning that no pair of vertices is joined by more than rr edges. A 1-factorization of GG is a decomposition of its edge set into perfect matchings.

Plantholt–Tipnis multigraph 1-factorization conjecture. If the degree of GG is at least rnrn, then GG is 1-factorizable.

This is the bounded-multiplicity multigraph generalization of the Chetwynd–Hilton conjecture. The source paper proves an asymptotic version: for every positive integer rr and ϵ>0\frac{}{}\epsilon>0, the assertion holds for all sufficiently large nn when the degree is at least (1+ϵ)rn(1+\epsilon)rn; the exact threshold rnrn remains open.

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Primary source

E. R. Vaughan, “An Asymptotic Version of the Multigraph 1-Factorization Conjecture”, arXiv:1010.5192 (2010).

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