Proof of a tournament partition conjecture and an application to 1-factors with prescribed cycle lengths |
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Authors: | Daniela Kühn Deryk Osthus Timothy Townsend |
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Institution: | 1.School of Mathematics,University of Birmingham,Edgbaston, Birmingham,UK |
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Abstract: | In 1982 Thomassen asked whether there exists an integer f(k,t) such that every strongly f(k,t)-connected tournament T admits a partition of its vertex set into t vertex classes V 1,…V t such that for all i the subtournament TV i] induced on T by V i is strongly k-connected. Our main result implies an affirmative answer to this question. In particular we show that f(k, t)=O(k 7 t 4) suffices. As another application of our main result we give an affirmative answer to a question of Song as to whether, for any integer t, there exists aninteger h(t) such that every strongly h(t)-connected tournament has a 1-factor consisting of t vertex-disjoint cycles of prescribed lengths. We show that h(t)=O(t 5) suffices. |
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