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The $H$-linkage problems in sparse robustly expanding digraphs

Combinatorics 2026-05-01 v1

Abstract

The Nash-Williams conjecture establishes degree sequence conditions ensuring Hamilton cycles in digraphs. An asymptotic version of this conjecture for large digraphs was independently derived by several researchers. We strengthen these results by proving the following results under the same asymptotic degree sequence conditions. For any digraph HH, a digraph DD is (NH)(\mathcal{N}H)-linked if there exists an integer l0l_0 such that for any vertex set UU of cardinality V(H)|V(H)| and every integer set N={li}i=1A(H)\mathcal{N}=\{l_i\}_{i=1}^{|A(H)|} with lil0l_i\geq l_0, DD contains an HH-subdivision with UU as branch-vertex set and the values in N\mathcal{N} specifying the lengths of the subdivided paths. Let DD be a sufficiently large digraph of order nn with the out-degree sequence d1+dn+d_1^+\leq\cdots\leq d_n^+ and the in-degree sequence d1dnd_1^-\leq\cdots\leq d_n^-. We prove that if for every γ(0,1)\gamma\in(0, 1) and every integer 0i<n/20\leq i<n/2, the following conditions hold: (i) di+i+γnd_i^+\geq i+\gamma n or dniγnnid_{n-i-\gamma n}^-\geq n-i, and (ii) dii+γnd_i^-\geq i+\gamma n or dniγn+nid_{n-i-\gamma n}^+\geq n-i, then DD is (NH)(\mathcal{N}H)-linked, and also admits a perfect HH-subdivision tiling with subdivision orders {n1,,nk}\{n_1, \ldots, n_k\}, where each niC0n_i\geq C_0 for some integer C0C_0.

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@article{arxiv.2604.27452,
  title  = {The $H$-linkage problems in sparse robustly expanding digraphs},
  author = {Zhilan Wang and Jin Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27452},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures

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