Decompositions into isomorphic rainbow spanning trees

Abstract

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours. Our main result implies that, given any optimal colouring of a sufficiently large complete graph K2n, there exists a decomposition of K2n into isomorphic rainbow spanning trees. This settles conjectures of Brualdi–Hollingsworth (from 1996) and Constantine (from 2002) for large graphs.