Gallai’s path decomposition conjecture

Series
Graph Theory Working Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Youngho Yoo – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Xingxing Yu
Gallai conjectured in 1968 that the edges of a connected graph on n vertices can be decomposed into at most (n+1)/2 edge-disjoint paths. This conjecture is still open, even for planar graphs. In this talk we will discuss some related results and special cases where it is known to hold.