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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/BKMS.b210147

PACKING TREES INTO COMPLETE K-PARTITE GRAPH  

Peng, Yanling (Department of Mathematics Suzhou University of Science and Technology)
Wang, Hong (Department of Mathematics University of Idaho)
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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.59, no.2, 2022 , pp. 345-350 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this work, we confirm a weak version of a conjecture proposed by Hong Wang. The ideal of the work comes from the tree packing conjecture made by Gyárfás and Lehel. Bollobás confirms the tree packing conjecture for many small tree, who showed that one can pack T1, T2, …, $T_{n/\sqrt{2}}$ into Kn and that a better bound would follow from a famous conjecture of Erdős. In a similar direction, Hobbs, Bourgeois and Kasiraj made the following conjecture: Any sequence of trees T1, T2, …, Tn, with Ti having order i, can be packed into Kn-1,[n/2]. Further Hobbs, Bourgeois and Kasiraj [3] proved that any two trees can be packed into a complete bipartite graph Kn-1,[n/2]. Motivated by the result, Hong Wang propose the conjecture: For each k-partite tree T(𝕏) of order n, there is a restrained packing of two copies of T(𝕏) into a complete k-partite graph Bn+m(𝕐), where $m={\lfloor}{\frac{k}{2}}{\rfloor}$. Hong Wong [4] confirmed this conjecture for k = 2. In this paper, we prove a weak version of this conjecture.
Keywords
Packing of graphs; tree packing conjecture; k-partite tree;
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