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Many vertex-disjoint even cycles of fixed length in a graph

Combinatorics 2023-11-29 v1

Abstract

For every integer k3k \ge 3, we determine the extremal structure of an nn-vertex graph with at most tt vertex-disjoint copies of C2kC_{2k} when nn is sufficiently large and tt lies in the interval [ex(n,C2k)εn,εn]\left[\frac{\mathrm{ex}(n,C_{2k})}{\varepsilon n}, \varepsilon n\right], where ε>0\varepsilon>0 is a constant depending only on kk. The question for k=2k = 2 and t=o(ex(n,C2k)n)t = o\left(\frac{\mathrm{ex}(n,C_{2k})}{n}\right) was explored in prior work~\cite{HHLLYZ23a}, revealing different extremal structures in these cases. Our result can be viewed as an extension of the theorems by Egawa~\cite{Ega96} and Verstra\"{e}te~\cite{Ver03}, where the focus was on the existence of many vertex-disjoint cycles of the same length without any length constraints.

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@article{arxiv.2311.16189,
  title  = {Many vertex-disjoint even cycles of fixed length in a graph},
  author = {Jianfeng Hou and Caiyun Hu and Heng Li and Xizhi Liu and Caihong Yang and Yixiao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.16189},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figues, comments are welcome. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2311.15172