Edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles in random graphs

Abstract

We show that provided $\log^{50} n/n \leq p \leq 1 - n^{-1/4}\log^9 n$ we can with high probability find a collection of $\lfloor \delta(G)/2 \rfloor$ edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles in $G \sim G_{n, p}$, plus an additional edge-disjoint matching of size $\lfloor n/2 \rfloor$ if $\delta(G)$ is odd. This confirms, for the above range of $p$, a conjecture of Frieze and Krivelevich.