Induced Cycles of Many Lengths
Combinatorics
2026-02-09 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
Let be a graph and let be the number of distinct induced cycle lengths in . We show that for , every graph that does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to or and satisfies has bounded treewidth. As a consequence, we obtain a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding whether a graph contains induced cycles of at least three distinct lengths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.06874,
title = {Induced Cycles of Many Lengths},
author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Ilya Maier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06874},
year = {2026}
}