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An old problem of Erd\H{o}s: a graph without two cycles of the same length

Combinatorics 2023-05-11 v3

Abstract

In 1975, P. Erd\H{o}s proposed the problem of determining the maximum number f(n)f(n) of edges in a graph on nn vertices in which any two cycles are of different lengths. Let f(n)f^{\ast}(n) be the maximum number of edges in a simple graph on nn vertices in which any two cycles are of different lengths. Let MnM_n be the set of simple graphs on nn vertices in which any two cycles are of different lengths and with the edges of f(n)f^{\ast}(n). Let mc(n)mc(n) be the maximum cycle length for all GMnG \in M_n. In this paper, it is proved that for nn sufficiently large, mc(n)1516nmc(n)\leq \frac{15}{16}n. We make the following conjecture: limnmc(n)n=0.\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} {mc(n)\over n}= 0.

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@article{arxiv.2110.04696,
  title  = {An old problem of Erd\H{o}s: a graph without two cycles of the same length},
  author = {Chunhui Lai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.04696},
  year   = {2023}
}

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