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Paper   IPM / M / 16477
School of Mathematics
  Title:   Decomposition of complete uniform multi-hypergraphs into Berge paths and cycles
  Author(s): 
1.  Ramin Javadi
2.  Gholamreza Omidi (Joint with A. Khodadadpour)
  Status:   Published
  Journal: J. Graph Theory
  Year:  2017
  Pages:   Doi: 1002/jgt.222226
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
In 2015, Bryant, Horsley, Maenhaut, and Smith, generalizing a well-known conjecture by Alspach, obtained the necessary and sufficient conditions for the decomposition of the complete multigraph �??𝐾�?? �?? 𝐼 into cycles of arbitrary lengths, where 𝐼 is empty, when �??(�?? �?? 1) is even and 𝐼 is a perfect matching, when �??(�?? �?? 1) is odd. Moreover, Bryant in 2010, verifying a conjecture by Tarsi, proved that the obvious necessary conditions for packing pairwise edgedisjoint paths of arbitrary lengths in �??𝐾�?? are also sufficient. In this article, first, we obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for packing edge-disjoint cycles of arbitrary lengths in �??𝐾�?? �?? 𝐼. Then, applying this result, we investigate the analogous problem of the decomposition of the complete uniform multihypergraph �??𝐾(�??)�?? into Berge cycles and paths of arbitrary given lengths. In particular, we show that for every integer �?? �?� 1, �?? �?� 108 and 3 �?� �?? < �??, �??𝐾(�??)�?? can be decomposed into Berge cycles and paths of arbitrary lengths, provided that the obvious necessary conditions hold, thereby generalizing a result by Kühn and Osthus on the decomposition of 𝐾(�??)�?? into Hamilton Berge cycles.

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