Ringel's tree-packing conjecture

Let TT be a tree with n+1n+1 vertices, and let a tree pack into a graph when edge-disjoint copies of it can be placed in that graph.

Ringel's conjecture. Every tree with n+1n+1 vertices packs 2n+12n+1 times into the complete graph K2n+1K_{2n+1}.

Equivalently, K2n+1K_{2n+1} should decompose into 2n+12n+1 edge-disjoint copies of every tree on n+1n+1 vertices. The source presents this as a longstanding open problem, alongside an asymptotic version.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Benny Sudakov, “Restricted subgraphs of edge-colored graphs and applications”, arXiv:2412.13945 (2024).

Additional references

12 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2410.13290, arXiv:2106.11720, arXiv:2001.02665, arXiv:1803.03316, arXiv:1608.01577, arXiv:1607.07342, arXiv:1606.03953, arXiv:1512.00427, arXiv:1505.05432, arXiv:1404.0697, arXiv:1205.4161.

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