English

A refinement of theorems on vertex-disjoint chorded cycles

Combinatorics 2015-11-16 v1

Abstract

In 1963, Corr\'adi and Hajnal settled a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s by proving that, for all k1k \geq 1, any graph GG with G3k|G| \geq 3k and minimum degree at least 2k2k contains kk vertex-disjoint cycles. In 2008, Finkel proved that for all k1k \geq 1, any graph GG with G4k|G| \geq 4k and minimum degree at least 3k3k contains kk vertex-disjoint chorded cycles. Finkel's result was strengthened by Chiba, Fujita, Gao, and Li in 2010, who showed, among other results, that for all k1k \geq 1, any graph GG with G4k|G| \geq 4k and minimum Ore-degree at least 6k16k-1 contains kk vertex-disjoint cycles. We refine this result, characterizing the graphs GG with G4k|G| \geq 4k and minimum Ore-degree at least 6k26k-2 that do not have kk disjoint chorded cycles.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04356,
  title  = {A refinement of theorems on vertex-disjoint chorded cycles},
  author = {Theodore Molla and Michael Santana and Elyse Yeager},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04356},
  year   = {2015}
}