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Hamiltonicity of graphs perturbed by a random regular graph

Combinatorics 2022-09-29 v2

Abstract

We study Hamiltonicity and pancyclicity in the graph obtained as the union of a deterministic nn-vertex graph HH with δ(H)αn\delta(H)\geq\alpha n and a random dd-regular graph GG, for d{1,2}d\in\{1,2\}. When GG is a random 22-regular graph, we prove that a.a.s. HGH\cup G is pancyclic for all α(0,1]\alpha\in(0,1], and also extend our result to a range of sublinear degrees. When GG is a random 11-regular graph, we prove that a.a.s. HGH\cup G is pancyclic for all α(21,1]\alpha\in(\sqrt{2}-1,1], and this result is best possible. Furthermore, we show that this bound on δ(H)\delta(H) is only needed when HH is `far' from containing a perfect matching, as otherwise we can show results analogous to those of random 22-regular graphs. Our proofs provide polynomial-time algorithms to find cycles of any length.

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@article{arxiv.2101.06689,
  title  = {Hamiltonicity of graphs perturbed by a random regular graph},
  author = {Alberto Espuny Díaz and António Girão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06689},
  year   = {2022}
}

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To appear in Random Structures and Algorithms

R2 v1 2026-06-23T22:14:39.699Z