Packing hamilton cycles in random and pseudo-random hypergraphs

  • Authors:
  • Alan Frieze;Michael Krivelevich

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213;School of Mathematical Sciences, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We say that a k -uniform hypergraph C is a Hamilton cycle of type ℓ, for some 1 ≤ ℓ ≤ k, if there exists a cyclic ordering of the vertices of C such that every edge consists of k consecutive vertices and for every pair of consecutive edges Ei-1,Ei in C (in the natural ordering of the edges) we have |Ei-1 / Ei| = ℓ. We prove that for k/2 ℓ ≤ k, with high probability almost all edges of the random k -uniform hypergraph H(n,p,k) with p(n) ≫ log 2n/n can be decomposed into edge-disjoint type ℓ Hamilton cycles. A slightly weaker result is given for ℓ = k/2. We also provide sufficient conditions for decomposing almost all edges of a pseudo-random k -uniform hypergraph into type ℓ Hamilton cycles, for k/2 ≤ ℓ ≤ k. For the case ℓ = k these results show that almost all edges of corresponding random and pseudo-random hypergraphs can be packed with disjoint perfect matchings. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2012 © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.