A multipartite version of the Hajnal-Szemerédi theorem for graphs and hypergraphs

preprint2012arXivOpen access

Abstract

A perfect KtK_t-matching in a graph GG is a spanning subgraph consisting of vertex disjoint copies of KtK_t. A classic theorem of Hajnal and Szemerédi states that if GG is a graph of order nn with minimum degree δ(G)≥(t−1)n/tδ(G) \ge (t-1)n/t and t∣nt| n, then GG contains a perfect KtK_t-matching. Let GG be a tt-partite graph with vertex classes V1V_1,..., VtV_t each of size nn. We show that if every vertex x∈Vix \in V_i is joined to at least ((t−1)/t+γ)n((t-1)/t + γ)n vertices of VjV_j for i≠ji \ne j, then GG contains a perfect KtK_t-matching, thus verifying a conjecture of Fisher asymptotically. Furthermore, we consider a generalisation to hypergraphs in terms of the codegree.

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