Multidecompositions of line graphs of complete graphs

Abstract

By a [Formula: see text]-decomposition of a graph [Formula: see text] we mean a decomposition of [Formula: see text] into [Formula: see text] copies of [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] copies of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] copies of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] are non-negative integers. In this paper, it is proved that the necessary conditions for the existence of a [Formula: see text]-decomposition of [Formula: see text] are sufficient, where B, the bowtie, is the graph with two triangles having exactly one common vertex. Further, it is shown that the line graph of [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] has a [Formula: see text]-decomposition except for [Formula: see text].