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    Decomposing 8-regular graphs into paths of length 4

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    A TT-decomposition of a graph GG is a set of edge-disjoint copies of TT in GG that cover the edge set of GG. Graham and H\"aggkvist (1989) conjectured that any 2â„“2\ell-regular graph GG admits a TT-decomposition if TT is a tree with â„“\ell edges. Kouider and Lonc (1999) conjectured that, in the special case where TT is the path with â„“\ell edges, GG admits a TT-decomposition D\mathcal{D} where every vertex of GG is the end-vertex of exactly two paths of D\mathcal{D}, and proved that this statement holds when GG has girth at least (â„“+3)/2(\ell+3)/2. In this paper we verify Kouider and Lonc's Conjecture for paths of length 44

    Cyclic cycle systems of the complete multipartite graph

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    In this paper, we study the existence problem for cyclic ℓ\ell-cycle decompositions of the graph Km[n]K_m[n], the complete multipartite graph with mm parts of size nn, and give necessary and sufficient conditions for their existence in the case that 2ℓ∣(m−1)n2\ell \mid (m-1)n
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