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| Author(s): |
Fábio Happ Botler
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2016-02-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Yoshiko Wakabayashi;
Orlando Lee;
Daniel Morgato Martin;
Cândida Nunes da Silva;
Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter
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| Advisor: | Yoshiko Wakabayashi |
| Abstract | |
A decomposition of a graph G is a set D = {H_1,...,H_k} of pairwise edge-disjoint subgraphs of G that cover the set of edges of G. If H_i is isomorphic to a fixed graph H, for 1<=i<=k, then we say that D is an H-decomposition of G. In this work, we study the case where H is a path of fixed length. For that, we first decompose the given graph into trails, and then we use a disentangling lemma, that allows us to transform this decomposition into one consisting only of paths. With this approach, we tackle three conjectures on H-decomposition of graphs and obtain results for the case H=P_\\ell is the path of length \\ell. Two of these results solve weakenings of a conjecture of Kouider and Lonc (1999) and a conjecture of Favaron, Genest and Kouider (2010), both for regular graphs. We prove that, for every positive integer \\ell, (i) there is a positive integer m_0 such that, if G is a 2m\\ell-regular graph with m>=m_0, then G admits a P_\\ell-decomposition; (ii) if \\ell is odd, there is a positive integer m_0 such that, if G is an m\\ell-regular graph with m>=m_0 containing an m-factor, then G admits a P_\\ell-decomposition. The third result concerns highly edge-connected graphs: there is a positive integer k_\\ell such that if G is a k_\\ell-edge-connected graph whose number of edges is divisible by \\ell, then G admits a P_\\ell-decomposition. This result verifies for paths the Decomposition Conjecture of Barát and Thomassen (2006), on trees. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/08033-0 - Decomposition of a graph into paths: structural and algorithmic aspects |
| Grantee: | Fábio Happ Botler |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |