The Graham–Häggkvist tree decomposition conjecture

Let TT be a tree with nn edges, and let Kn,nK_{n,n} be the balanced complete bipartite graph with nn vertices in each part.

Graham–Häggkvist conjecture. The edge set of Kn,nK_{n,n} can be decomposed into copies of every nn-edge tree TT.

This is the bipartite analogue of the tree-decomposition conjecture associated with Ringel. The source states that it remains open, although the paper discusses rainbow embedding approaches.

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Primary source

Alp Müyesser and Alexey Pokrovskiy, “On the Graham–Sloane harmonious labelling conjecture”, arXiv:2509.05280 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2008.00926, arXiv:1607.01456.

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