Decomposing complete graphs into cubes
Author(s) -
Saad I. ElZanati,
Charles Vanden Eynden
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
discussiones mathematicae graph theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2083-5892
pISSN - 1234-3099
DOI - 10.7151/dmgt.1308
Subject(s) - modulo , mathematics , combinatorics , conjecture , graph , discrete mathematics
This paper concerns when the complete graph on n vertices can be decomposed into d-dimensional cubes, where d is odd and n is even. (All other cases have been settled.) Necessary conditions are that n be congruent to 1 modulo d and 0 modulo 2 d . These are known to be su‐cient for d equal to 3 or 5. For larger values of d, the necessary conditions are asymptotically su‐cient by Wilson’s results. We prove that for each odd d there is an inflnite arithmetic progression of even integers n for which a decomposition exists. This lends further weight to a long-standing conjecture of Kotzig.
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