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Powers of Hamilton cycles in dense graphs perturbed by a random geometric graph

Combinatorics 2023-01-18 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a graph obtained as the union of some nn-vertex graph HnH_n with minimum degree δ(Hn)αn\delta(H_n)\geq\alpha n and a dd-dimensional random geometric graph Gd(n,r)G^d(n,r). We investigate under which conditions for rr the graph GG will a.a.s. contain the kk-th power of a Hamilton cycle, for any choice of HnH_n. We provide asymptotically optimal conditions for rr for all values of α\alpha, dd and kk. This has applications in the containment of other spanning structures, such as FF-factors.

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@article{arxiv.2205.08971,
  title  = {Powers of Hamilton cycles in dense graphs perturbed by a random geometric graph},
  author = {Alberto Espuny Díaz and Joseph Hyde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08971},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

To appear in European Journal of Combinatorics. This version addresses referee reports