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An Ore-type condition for existence of two disjoint cycles

Combinatorics 2019-05-02 v1

Abstract

Let n1n_{1} and n2n_{2} be two integers with n1,n23n_{1},n_{2}\geq3 and GG a graph of order n=n1+n2n=n_{1}+n_{2}. As a generalization of Ore's degree condition for the existence of Hamilton cycle in GG, El-Zahar proved that if δ(G)n12+n22\delta(G)\geq \left\lceil\frac{n_{1}}{2}\right\rceil+\left\lceil\frac{n_{2}}{2}\right\rceil then GG contains two disjoint cycles of length n1n_{1} and n2n_{2}. Recently, Yan et. al considered the problem by extending the degree condition to degree sum condition and proved that if d(u)+d(v)n+4d(u)+d(v)\geq n+4 for any pair of non-adjacent vertices uu and vv of GG, then GG contains two disjoint cycles of length n1n_{1} and n2n_{2}. They further asked whether the degree sum condition can be improved to d(u)+d(v)n+2d(u)+d(v)\geq n+2. In this paper, we give a positive answer to this question. Our result also generalizes El-Zahar's result when n1n_{1} and n2n_{2} are both odd.

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@article{arxiv.1905.00239,
  title  = {An Ore-type condition for existence of two disjoint cycles},
  author = {Maoqun Wang and Jianguo Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00239},
  year   = {2019}
}