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Cycles of many lengths in Hamiltonian graphs

Combinatorics 2021-04-16 v1

Abstract

In 1999, Jacobson and Lehel conjectured that for k3k \geq 3, every kk-regular Hamiltonian graph has cycles of at least linearly many different lengths. This was further strengthened by Verstra\"{e}te, who asked whether the regularity can be replaced with the weaker condition that the minimum degree is at least 33. Despite attention from various researchers, until now, the best partial result towards both of these conjectures was a n\sqrt{n} lower bound on the number of cycle lengths. We resolve these conjectures asymptotically, by showing that the number of cycle lengths is at least n1o(1)n^{1-o(1)}.

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@article{arxiv.2104.07633,
  title  = {Cycles of many lengths in Hamiltonian graphs},
  author = {Matija Bucić and Lior Gishboliner and Benny Sudakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07633},
  year   = {2021}
}