Grinshpun–Sárközy conjecture on tiling bounded-degree graph sequences

Let \mathcal{F}={F_1,F_2,\dots\} be a graph sequence with v(Fi)=iv(F_i)=i and maximum degree Δ(Fi)Δ\Delta(F_i)\leq\Delta for all ii. For an rr-edge coloured complete graph, let τr(F)\tau_r(\mathcal{F}) be the least ss such that its vertex set has a monochromatic F\mathcal{F}-tiling of size at most ss, where a monochromatic F\mathcal{F}-tiling consists of monochromatic subgraphs, each isomorphic to an element of F\mathcal{F}, whose vertex sets partition the complete graph's vertex set.

Grinshpun–Sárközy conjecture. For every positive integer rr there exists a constant CrC_r such that, for every Δ2\Delta\geq 2 and every Δ\Delta-bounded graph sequence F\mathcal{F},

τr(F)exp(ΔCr).\tau_r(\mathcal{F})\leq \exp(\Delta^{C_r}).

The conjecture concerns the finiteness and quantitative growth of the tiling number for more than two colours. Corsten and Mendonça later proved finiteness with a triple-exponential bound, and the paper proves the stronger bound τr(F)exp(CrΔ)\tau_r(\mathcal{F})\leq\exp(C_r\Delta) for bipartite bounded-degree graph sequences, but the full conjecture for general sequences is not resolved here.

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António Girão and Oliver Janzer, “Tiling with monochromatic bipartite graphs of bounded maximum degree”, arXiv:2109.09642 (2021).

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