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Induced Cycles of Many Lengths

Combinatorics 2026-02-09 v1 Discrete Mathematics Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

Let GG be a graph and let cl(G)\mathrm{cl}(G) be the number of distinct induced cycle lengths in GG. We show that for c,tNc,t\in \mathbb N, every graph GG that does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to Kt+1K_{t+1} or Kt,tK_{t,t} and satisfies cl(G)c\mathrm{cl}(G) \le c has bounded treewidth. As a consequence, we obtain a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding whether a graph GG contains induced cycles of at least three distinct lengths.

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@article{arxiv.2602.06874,
  title  = {Induced Cycles of Many Lengths},
  author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Ilya Maier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06874},
  year   = {2026}
}