Bollobás–Eldridge–Catlin packing conjecture

Let G1G_1 and G2G_2 be graphs on nn vertices, with maximum degrees Δ1\Delta_1 and Δ2\Delta_2, respectively. Two graphs pack if there are bijections between their vertex sets such that no edge of one graph is mapped to an edge of the other.

Bollobás–Eldridge–Catlin conjecture. If

(Δ1+1)(Δ2+1)n+1,(\Delta_1+1)(\Delta_2+1)\le n+1,

then G1G_1 and G2G_2 pack.

There are some resolved cases, but the conjecture is open in general.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Béla Csaba and Judit Nagy-György, “Embedding graphs having Ore-degree at most five”, arXiv:1707.07216 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1703.05149.

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.