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Cycle packing

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In the 1960s, Erdős and Gallai conjectured that the edge set of every graph on n vertices can be partitioned into O(n) cycles and edges. They observed that one can easily get an O(n log n)upper bound by repeatedly removing the edges of the longest cycle. We make the first progress on this problem, showing that O(n log log n) cycles and edges suffice. We also prove the Erdős-Gallai conjecture for random graphs and for graphs with linear minimum degree.

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10.1002/rsa.20574

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Oxford college:
Wadham College
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Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
Random Structures and Algorithms More from this journal
Volume:
45
Issue:
4
Pages:
608-626
Publication date:
2014-10-16
Acceptance date:
2014-05-13
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1098-2418
ISSN:
1042-9832


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2016-11-24
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