1. ON THE MINIMUM DEGREE REQUIRED FOR A TRIANGLE DECOMPOSITION.
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DUKES, PETER J. and HORSLEY, DANIEL
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MATHEMATICS , *TRIANGLES , *EDGES (Geometry) - Abstract
We prove that, for sufficiently large n, every graph of order n with minimum degree at least 0.852n has a fractional edge-decomposition into triangles. We do this by refining a method used by Dross [SIAM J. Discrete Math., 30 (2016), pp. 36--42] to establish a bound of 0.9n. By a result of Barber, Kuhn, Lo, and Osthus [Adv. Math., 288 (2016), pp. 337--385], our result implies that, for each epsilon > 0, every graph of sufficiently large order n with minimum degree at least (0.852 + epsilon)n has a triangle decomposition if and only if it has all even degrees and number of edges a multiple of three. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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