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Closing gaps in problems related to Hamilton cycles in random graphs and hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2015-02-09 v2

Abstract

We show how to adjust a very nice coupling argument due to McDiarmid in order to prove/reprove in a novel way results concerning Hamilton cycles in various models of random graph and hypergraphs. In particular, we firstly show that for k3k\geq 3, if pnk1/lognpn^{k-1}/\log n tends to infinity, then a random kk-uniform hypergraph on nn vertices, with edge probability pp, with high probability (w.h.p.) contains a loose Hamilton cycle, provided that (k1)n(k-1)|n. This generalizes results of Frieze, Dudek and Frieze, and reproves a result of Dudek, Frieze, Loh and Speiss. Secondly, we show that there exists K>0K>0 such for every p(Klogn)/np\geq (K\log n)/n the following holds: Let Gn,pG_{n,p} be a random graph on nn vertices with edge probability pp, and suppose that its edges are being colored with nn colors uniformly at random. Then, w.h.p\ the resulting graph contains a Hamilton cycle with for which all the colors appear (a rainbow Hamilton cycle). Lastly, we show that for p=(1+o(1))(logn)/np=(1+o(1))(\log n)/n, if we randomly color the edge set of a random directed graph Dn,pD_{n,p} with (1+o(1))n(1+o(1))n colors, then w.h.p.\ one can find a rainbow Hamilton cycle where all the edges are directed in the same way.

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@article{arxiv.1502.01399,
  title  = {Closing gaps in problems related to Hamilton cycles in random graphs and hypergraphs},
  author = {Asaf Ferber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01399},
  year   = {2015}
}

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