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John Lapinskas

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arXiv2013

Optimal covers with Hamilton cycles in random graphs

A packing of a graph G with Hamilton cycles is a set of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles in G. Such packings have been studied intensively and recent results imply that a largest packing of Hamilton cycles in G_n,p a.a.s. has size \lfloor delta(G_n,p) /2 \rfloor. Glebov, Krivelevich and Szabó recently initiated research on the `dual' problem, where one asks for a set of Hamilton cycles covering all edges of G. Our main result states that for log^{117}n / n < p < 1-n^{-1/8}, a.a.s. the edges of G_n,p can be covered by \lceil Delta(G_n,p)/2 \rceil Hamilton cycles. This is clearly optimal and improves an approximate result of Glebov, Krivelevich and Szabó, which holds for p > n^{-1+\eps}. Our proof is based on a result of Knox, Kühn and Osthus on packing Hamilton cycles in pseudorandom graphs.

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arXiv2013

Proof of a conjecture of Thomassen on Hamilton cycles in highly connected tournaments

A conjecture of Thomassen from 1982 states that for every k there is an f(k) so that every strongly f(k)-connected tournament contains k edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. A classical theorem of Camion, that every strongly connected tournament contains a Hamilton cycle, implies that f(1)=1. So far, even the existence of f(2) was open. In this paper, we prove Thomassen's conjecture by showing that f(k)=O(k^2*log^2(k)). This is best possible up to the logarithmic factor. As a tool, we show that every strongly 10^4*k*log(k)-connected tournament is k-linked (which improves a previous exponential bound). The proof of the latter is based on a fundamental result of Ajtai, Komlós and Szemerédi on asymptotically optimal sorting networks.

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arXiv2012

Optimal packings of Hamilton cycles in graphs of high minimum degree

We study the number of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles one can guarantee in a sufficiently large graph G on n vertices with minimum degree d = (1/2+a)n. For any constant a > 0, we give an optimal answer in the following sense: let reg_even(n,d) denote the degree of the largest even-regular spanning subgraph one can guarantee in a graph on n vertices with minimum degree d. Then the number of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles we find equals reg_even(n,d)/2. The value of reg_even(n,d) is known for infinitely many values of n and d. We also extend our results to graphs G of minimum degree d >= n/2, unless G is close to the extremal constructions for Dirac's theorem. Our proof relies on a recent and very general result of Kühn and Osthus on Hamilton decomposition of robustly expanding regular graphs.

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