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

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Let p=p(n)p=p(n) satisfy 0≤p(n)≤10\leq p(n)\leq 1, and let G∼G(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 log⁡n/n≤p≤n−1+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.

References

Primary source

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

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