Abstract: | A decomposition of a multigraph is a partition of its edges into subgraphs . It is called an -factorization if every is -regular and spanning. If is a subgraph of , a decomposition of is said to be enclosed in a decomposition of if, for every , is a subgraph of .Feghali and Johnson gave necessary and sufficient conditions for a given decomposition of to be enclosed in some 2-edge-connected -factorization of for some range of values for the parameters , , , , : , and either , or and and , or and . We generalize their result to every and . We also give some sufficient conditions for enclosing a given decomposition of in some 2-edge-connected -factorization of for every and , where is a constant that depends only on , and . |