Decompositions of highly connected graphs into paths of length 3

We prove that a 171-edge-connected graph has an edgedecomposition into paths of length 3 if and only its size is divisible by 3. It is a long-standing problem whether 2-edge-connectedness is sufficient for planar triangle-free graphs, and whether 3-edge-connectedness suffices for graphs in general. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 58: 286–292, 2008 Keyword: path-decompositions