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A variation of a theorem by P\'osa

Combinatorics 2018-04-19 v2

Abstract

A graph GG is \ell-hamiltonian if for any linear forest FF of GG with \ell edges, FF can be extended to a hamiltonian cycle of GG. We give a sharp upper bound for the maximum number of cliques of a fixed size in a non-\ell-hamiltonian graph. Furthermore, we prove stability for the bound: if a non-\ell-hamiltonian graph contains almost the maximum number of cliques, then it must be a subgraph of one of two examples.

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@article{arxiv.1804.05829,
  title  = {A variation of a theorem by P\'osa},
  author = {Zoltan Furedi and Alexandr Kostochka and Ruth Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05829},
  year   = {2018}
}