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Triangle-Tilings in Graphs Without Large Independent Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2018

JÓZSEF BALOGH
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
ANDREW McDOWELL
Affiliation:
Informatics Department, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK (e-mail: [email protected])
THEODORE MOLLA
Affiliation:
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
RICHARD MYCROFT
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK (e-mail: [email protected])

Abstract

We study the minimum degree necessary to guarantee the existence of perfect and almost-perfect triangle-tilings in an n-vertex graph G with sublinear independence number. In this setting, we show that if δ(G) ≥ n/3 + o(n), then G has a triangle-tiling covering all but at most four vertices. Also, for every r ≥ 5, we asymptotically determine the minimum degree threshold for a perfect triangle-tiling under the additional assumptions that G is Kr-free and n is divisible by 3.

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