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Cycles with consecutive odd lengths

Combinatorics 2014-10-03 v1

Abstract

It is proved that there exists an absolute constant c > 0 such that for every natural number k, every non-bipartite 2-connected graph with average degree at least ck contains k cycles with consecutive odd lengths. This implies the existence of the absolute constant d > 0 that every non-bipartite 2-connected graph with minimum degree at least dk contains cycles of all lengths modulo k, thus providing an answer (in a strong form) to a question of Thomassen. Both results are sharp up to the constant factors.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0430,
  title  = {Cycles with consecutive odd lengths},
  author = {Jie Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0430},
  year   = {2014}
}

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7 pages

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