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Tiling in bipartite graphs with asymmetric minimum degrees

The problem of determining the optimal minimum degree condition for a balanced bipartite graph on 2ms vertices to contain m vertex disjoint copies of K_{s,s} was solved by Zhao. Later Hladký and Schacht, and Czygrinow and DeBiasio determined the optimal minimum degree condition for a balanced bipartite graph on 2m(s+t) vertices to contain m vertex disjoint copies of K_{s,t} for fixed positive integers s<t. For a balanced bipartite graph G[U,V], let δ_U be the minimum degree over all vertices in U and δ_V be the minimum degree over all vertices in V. We consider the problem of determining the optimal value of δ_U+δ_V which guarantees that G can be tiled with K_{s,s}. We show that the optimal value depends on D:=|δ_V-δ_U|. When D is small, we show that δ_U+δ_V\geq n+3s-5 is best possible. As D becomes larger, we show that δ_U+δ_V can be made smaller, but no smaller than n+2s-2s^{1/2}. However, when D=n-C for some constant C, we show that there exist graphs with δ_U+δ_V\geq n+s^{s^{1/3}} which cannot be tiled with K_{s,s}.