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Robust Hamiltonicity in families of Dirac graphs

Combinatorics 2026-04-14 v3

Abstract

A graph is called Dirac if its minimum degree is at least half of the number of vertices in it. Joos and Kim showed that every collection G={G1,,Gn}\mathbb{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_n\} of Dirac graphs on the same vertex set VV of size nn contains a Hamilton cycle transversal, i.e., a Hamilton cycle HH on VV with a bijection ϕ:E(H)[n]\phi:E(H)\rightarrow [n] such that eGϕ(e)e\in G_{\phi(e)} for every eE(H)e\in E(H). In this paper, we determine up to a multiplicative constant, the threshold for the existence of a Hamilton cycle transversal in a collection of random subgraphs of Dirac graphs in various settings. Our proofs rely on constructing a spread measure on the set of Hamilton cycle transversals of a family of Dirac graphs. As a corollary, we obtain that every collection of nn Dirac graphs on nn vertices contains at least (cn)2n(cn)^{2n} different Hamilton cycle transversals (H,ϕ)(H,\phi) for some absolute constant c>0c>0. This is optimal up to the constant cc. Finally, we show that if nn is sufficiently large, then every such collection spans n/2n/2 pairwise edge-disjoint Hamilton cycle transversals, and this is best possible. These statements generalize classical counting results of Hamilton cycles in a single Dirac graph.

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@article{arxiv.2309.12607,
  title  = {Robust Hamiltonicity in families of Dirac graphs},
  author = {Michael Anastos and Debsoumya Chakraborti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12607},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Added more details to the proofs and fixed some minor errors