English

Nested cycles with no geometric crossings

Combinatorics 2021-09-10 v2

Abstract

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: what is the smallest function f(n)f(n) for which all graphs with nn vertices and f(n)f(n) edges contain two edge-disjoint cycles C1C_1 and C2C_2, such that the vertex set of C2C_2 is a subset of the vertex set of C1C_1 and their cyclic orderings of the vertices respect each other? We prove the optimal linear bound f(n)=O(n)f(n)=O(n) using sublinear expanders.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.04810,
  title  = {Nested cycles with no geometric crossings},
  author = {Irene Gil Fernández and Jaehoon Kim and Younjin Kim and Hong Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04810},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures

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