Decomposing graphs into paths of fixed length

Barát and Thomassen have conjectured that, for any fixed tree T, there exists a natural number k _T such that the following holds: If G is a k _T -edge-connected graph such that |E(T)| divides |E(G)|, then G has a T-decomposition. The conjecture is trivial when T has one or two edges. Before submission of this paper, the conjecture had been verified only for two other trees: the paths of length 3 and 4, respectively. In this paper we verify the conjecture for each path whose length is a power of 2.