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Asymptotic Existence of Resolvable Graph Designs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Peter Dukes  and
Alan C. H. Ling
Peter Dukes
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P4 e-mail: dukes@math.uvic.ca
Alan C. H. Ling
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, U.s.A. e-mail: aling@emba.uvm.edu
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Abstract

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Let $v\,\ge \,k\,\ge \,1$ and $\lambda \,\ge \,0$ be integers. A block design$\text{BD}\left( v,\,k,\,\lambda \right)$ is a collection $\mathcal{A}$ of $k$-subsets of a $v$-set $X$ in which every unordered pair of elements from $X$ is contained in exactly $\lambda $ elements of $\mathcal{A}$. More generally, for a fixed simple graph $G$, a graph design$\text{GD}\left( v,\,G,\,\lambda \right)$ is a collection $\mathcal{A}$ of graphs isomorphic to $G$ with vertices in $X$ such that every unordered pair of elements from $X$ is an edge of exactly $\lambda $ elements of $\mathcal{A}$. A famous result of Wilson says that for a fixed $ $ and $\lambda $, there exists a $\text{GD}\left( v,\,G,\,\lambda \right)$ for all sufficiently large $ $ satisfying certain necessary conditions. A block (graph) design as above is resolvable if $\mathcal{A}$ can be partitioned into partitions of (graphs whose vertex sets partition) $X$. Lu has shown asymptotic existence in $v$ of resolvable $\text{BD}\left( v,\,k,\,\lambda \right)$, yet for over twenty years the analogous problem for resolvable $\text{GD}\left( v,\,G,\,\lambda \right)$ has remained open. In this paper, we settle asymptotic existence of resolvable graph designs.

Keywords

05B0505C7005B10graph decompositionresolvable designs
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , 01 December 2007 , pp. 504 - 518
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2007

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