Frieze–Krivelevich conjecture on Hamilton-cycle packings in random graphs

Let p=p(n)p=p(n) satisfy 0p(n)10\leq p(n)\leq 1, and let GG(n,p)G\sim G(n,p) be the binomial random graph. Write δ(G)\delta(G) for its minimum degree. An edge-disjoint Hamilton-cycle packing is a collection of Hamilton cycles no two of which share an edge.

Frieze–Krivelevich conjecture. Asymptotically almost surely, GG contains

δ(G)2\left\lfloor\frac{\delta(G)}{2}\right\rfloor

edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles.

Each Hamilton cycle uses two edges at every vertex, so this is the natural trivial upper bound for such a packing. The conjecture was stated explicitly by Frieze and Krivelevich; the source proves it in the sparse range logn/npn1+ε\log n/n\leq p\leq n^{-1+\varepsilon} for some positive constant ε\varepsilon, while the full range of pp remains open in the source.

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Michael Krivelevich and Wojciech Samotij, “Optimal packings of Hamilton cycles in sparse random graphs”, arXiv:1109.5341 (2011).

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