Brualdi–Hollingsworth conjecture on rainbow spanning-tree decompositions
Brualdi–Hollingsworth conjecture on rainbow spanning-tree decompositions
Let be a complete graph and let a -factorization be an edge-colouring whose colour classes form a decomposition of into perfect matchings. A subgraph is rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours, and a collection of subgraphs decomposes if its members are edge-disjoint and cover every edge. Brualdi–Hollingsworth conjecture. For all and any -factorization of , there exists a decomposition of into rainbow spanning trees. The condition is necessary. The conjecture asks for a full decomposition, strengthening the known results guaranteeing only finitely or linearly many edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees; an asymptotic version was known, while the paper's main theorem proves the conjecture for sufficiently large .
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Primary source
Stefan Glock, Daniela Kühn, Richard Montgomery and Deryk Osthus, “Decompositions into isomorphic rainbow spanning trees”, arXiv:1903.04262 (2020).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1703.07301, arXiv:1102.4802.
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