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On cycle covers of infinite bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2025-04-04 v1 General Topology

Abstract

Given a graph GG and a subset XX of vertices of GG with size at least two, we denote by NG2(X)N^2_G(X) the set of vertices of GG that have at least two neighbors in XX. We say that a bipartite graph GG with sides AA and BB satisfies the double Hall property if for every subset XX of vertices of AA with size at least 2, NG2(X)X\vert N^2_G(X)\vert \geq \vert X\vert. Salia conjectured that if GG is a bipartite graph that satisfies the double Hall property, then there exists a cycle in GG that covers all vertices of AA. In this work, we study this conjecture restricted to infinite graphs. For this, we use the definition of ends and infinite cycles. It is simple to see that Salia's conjecture is false for infinite graphs in general. Consequently, all our results are partial. Under certain hypothesis it is possible to obtain a collection of pairwise disjoint 2-regular subgraphs that covers AA. We show that if side BB is locally finite and side AA is countable, then the conjecture is true. Furthermore, assuming the conjecture holds for finite graphs, we show that it holds for infinite graphs with a restriction on the degree of the vertices of BB. This result is inspired by the result obtained by Bar\'at, Grzesik, Jung, Nagy and P\'alv\"olgyi for finite graphs. Finally, we also show that if Salia's conjecture holds for some cases of infinite graphs, then the conjecture about finite graphs presented by Lavrov and Vandenbussche is true.

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@article{arxiv.2504.02816,
  title  = {On cycle covers of infinite bipartite graphs},
  author = {Leandro Aurichi and Paulo Magalhães Júnior and Lyubomyr Zdomskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02816},
  year   = {2025}
}