Sharp bounds for decomposing graphs into edges and triangles

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• Yanitsa Pehova (University of Warwick)
• Thursday 28 March 2019, 13:00-14:00
• Watson LTB.

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In a paper from 1966 Erdős, Goodman and Pósa showed that for every graph G of order n there exists a decomposition of the edges of G into at most n²/4 complete graphs. In fact, it is enough to consider only edges and triangles for this decomposition. This is best possible, as witnessed by the complete balanced bipartite graph. It was later shown by Győri and Kostochka, by Chung, and by Kahn, that if one seeks to minimise not the number, but the sum of the sizes of cliques in a decomposition, the corresponding minimum is n²/2. It was conjectured by Győri and Tuza that edges and triangles suffice here too, up to a small constant. We prove this conjecture for large n, and consider extensions of this problem to other cost regimes. This is joint work with (various subsets of) Adam Blumenthal, Dan Král’, Taísa Martins, Bernard Lidický, Florian Pfender, Oleg Pikhurko and Jan Volec.

This talk is part of the Combinatorics and Probability seminar series.

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