Minimum H-decompositions of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Oleg Pikhurko;Teresa Sousa

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA;Departamento de Matemática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Given graphs G and H, an H-decomposition of G is a partition of the edge set of G such that each part is either a single edge or forms a graph isomorphic to H. Let @f"H(n) be the smallest number @f such that any graph G of order n admits an H-decomposition with at most @f parts. Here we determine the asymptotic of @f"H(n) for any fixed graph H as n tends to infinity. The exact computation of @f"H(n) for an arbitrary H is still an open problem. Bollobas [B. Bollobas, On complete subgraphs of different orders, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 79 (1976) 19-24] accomplished this task for cliques. When H is bipartite, we determine @f"H(n) with a constant additive error and provide an algorithm returning the exact value with running time polynomial in logn.