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Packing Tree Factors In Random And Pseudo-Random Graphs, Deepak Bal, Alan Frieze, Michael Krivelevich, Po-Shen Loh

Deepak Bal

For a fixed graph H with t vertices, an H-factor of a graph G with n vertices, where t divides n, is a collection of vertex disjoint (not necessarily induced) copies of H in G covering all vertices of G. We prove that for a fixed tree T on t vertices and ϵ>0, the random graph Gn,p, with n a multiple of t, with high probability contains a family of edge-disjoint T-factors covering all but an ϵ-fraction of its edges, as long as ϵ4np≫log2n. Assuming stronger divisibility conditions, the edge probability can be taken down to p>Clognn. A …