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Proof of a Packing Conjecture of Bollobás

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

János Komlós ,
Gábor N. Sárközy  and
Endre Szemerédi
János Komlós
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, USAHungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Gábor N. Sárközy
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, USAHungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Endre Szemerédi
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, USAHungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
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Abstract

Béla Bollobás [1] conjectured the following. For any positive integer Δ and real 0 < c < ½ there exists an n0 with the following properties. If n ≥ n0, T is a tree of order n and maximum degree Δ, and G is a graph of order n and maximum degree not exceeding cn, then there is a packing of T and G. Here we prove this conjecture. Auxiliary Theorem 2.1 is of independent interest.

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Research Article
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 241 - 255
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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