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A Multipartite Version of the Hajnal–Szemerédi Theorem for Graphs and Hypergraphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2012

ALLAN LO  and
KLAS MARKSTRÖM
ALLAN LO
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK (e-mail: s.a.lo@bham.ac.uk)
KLAS MARKSTRÖM
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden (e-mail: klas.markstrom@math.umu.se)
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Abstract

A perfect Kt-matching in a graph G is a spanning subgraph consisting of vertex-disjoint copies of Kt. A classic theorem of Hajnal and Szemerédi states that if G is a graph of order n with minimum degree δ(G) ≥ (t − 1)n/t and t|n, then G contains a perfect Kt-matching. Let G be a t-partite graph with vertex classes V1, …, Vt each of size n. We show that, for any γ > 0, if every vertex x ∈ Vi is joined to at least $\bigl ((t-1)/t + \gamma \bigr )n$ vertices of Vj for each j ≠ i, then G contains a perfect Kt-matching, provided n is large enough. Thus, we verify a conjecture of Fischer [6] asymptotically. Furthermore, we consider a generalization to hypergraphs in terms of the codegree.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 97 - 111
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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