Title
Decompositions of edge-colored complete graphs
Abstract
We prove an asymptotic existence theorem for decompositions of edge-colored complete graphs into prespecified edge-colored subgraphs. Many combinatorial design problems fall within this framework. Applications of our main theorem require calculations involving the numbers of edges of each color and degrees of each color class of edges for the graphs allowed in the decomposition. We do these calculations to provide new proofs of the asymptotic existence of resolvable designs, near resolvable designs, group divisible designs, and grid designs. Two further applications are the asymptotic existence of skew Room d -cubes and the asymptotic existence of ( v ,  k , 1)-BIBDs with any group of order k −1 as an automorphism group.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1006/jcta.1999.3005
J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A
Keywords
Field
DocType
edge-colored complete graph,edge coloring,combinatorial design,complete graph
Existence theorem,Discrete mathematics,Automorphism group,Graph,Combinatorics,Colored,Mathematical proof,Skew,Combinatorial design,Grid,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
89
2
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.55
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Esther R. Lamken1325.19
Richard M. Wilson2697340.86