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On a conjecture of Bondy and Vince

Combinatorics 2019-07-25 v2

Abstract

Twenty years ago Bondy and Vince conjectured that for any nonnegative integer kk, except finitely many counterexamples, every graph with kk vertices of degree less than three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two. The case k2k\leq 2 was proved by Bondy and Vince, which resolved an earlier conjecture of Erd\H{o}s et. al.. In this paper we confirm this conjecture for all kk.

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@article{arxiv.1902.05701,
  title  = {On a conjecture of Bondy and Vince},
  author = {Jun Gao and Jie Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05701},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, updated according to referee reports