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Let $\mathscr{G}$ be the class of plane graphs without triangles normally adjacent to $8^{-}$-cycles, without $4$-cycles normally adjacent to $6^{-}$-cycles, and without normally adjacent $5$-cycles. In this paper, it is shown that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Fangyao Lu , Mengjiao Rao , Qianqian Wang , Tao Wang

An $n$-vertex graph is degree 3-critical if it has $2n - 2$ edges and no proper induced subgraph with minimum degree at least 3. In 1988, Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp asked whether one can always find cycles of all short…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Francesco Di Braccio , Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Jie Ma , Alexandru Malekshahian , Ziyuan Zhao

Let C(G) denote the set of lengths of cycles in a graph G. In the first part of this paper, we study the minimum possible value of |C(G)| over all graphs G of average degree d and girth g. Erdos conjectured that |C(G)| =\Omega(d^{\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Benny Sudakov , Jacques Verstraete

A tight $\ell$-cycle minus an edge $C_\ell^-$ is the $3$-graph on the vertex set $[\ell]$, where any three consecutive vertices in the string $123\ldots\ell 1$ form an edge. We show that for every $\ell\ge 5$, $\ell$ not divisible by $3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Bernard Lidicky , Connor Mattes , Florian Pfender

A graph G on n vertices is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle of length n and pancyclic if it contains cycles of length $\ell$ for all $3 \le \ell \le n$. Write $\alpha(G)$ for the independence number of $G$, i.e. the size of the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Peter Keevash , Benny Sudakov

A graph is {\em{$\ell$-holed}} if all of its induced cycles of length at least four have length exactly $\ell$. In the paper, we prove that if $G$ is an $\ell$-holed graph with odd $\ell\geq 7$, then $\chi(G)\leq {\lceil {\ell \over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yan Wang , Rong Wu

We say that a graph $G$ has an {\em odd $K_4$-subdivision} if some subgraph of $G$ is isomorphic to a $K_4$-subdivision and whose faces are all odd holes of $G$. For a number $\ell\geq 2$, let $\mathcal{G}_{\ell}$ denote the family of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Rong Chen , Yidong Zhou

A graph $G$ is called an $[s,t]$-graph if any induced subgraph of $G$ of order $s$ has size at least $t$. In 2024, Zhan conjectured that every $2$-connected $[p + 2, p]$-graph of order at least $2p + 3$ and with minimum degree at least $p$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Feng Liu , Hongxi Liu

A conjecture by Lichiardopol states that for every $k \ge 1$ there exists an integer $g(k)$ such that every digraph of minimum out-degree at least $g(k)$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint directed cycles of pairwise distinct lengths. Motivated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Raphael Steiner

A graph $G$ of order $n$ is called edge-pancyclic if, for every integer $k$ with $3 \leq k \leq n$, every edge of $G$ lies in a cycle of length $k$. Determining the minimum size $f(n)$ of a simple edge-pancyclic graph with $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Xiamiao Zhao , Yuxuan Yang

An oriented cycle is an orientation of a undirected cycle. We first show that for any oriented cycle $C$, there are digraphs containing no subdivision of $C$ (as a subdigraph) and arbitrarily large chromatic number. In contrast, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Nathann Cohen , Frédéric Havet , William Lochet , Nicolas Nisse

Dean conjectured three decades ago that every graph with minimum degree at least $k\ge 3$ contains a cycle whose length is divisible by $k$. While the conjecture has been verified for $k\in \{3,4\}$, it remains open for $k\ge 5$. A weaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yufan Luo , Jie Ma , Ziyuan Zhao

A graph is "$\ell$-holed" if all its induced cycles of length at least four have length exactly $\ell$. We give a complete description of the $\ell$-holed graphs for each $\ell\ge 7$.

There has been extensive research on cycle lengths in graphs with large minimum degree. In this paper, we obtain several new and tight results in this area. Let $G$ be a graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$. We prove that if $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Chun-Hung Liu , Jie Ma

A non-increasing sequence $\pi=(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ of nonnegative integers is said to be graphic if it is realizable by a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. A graphic sequence $\pi=(d_1,\ldots,d_n)$ is said to be potentially $_3C_\ell$-graphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Guang-Ming Li , Jian-Hua Yin

Let $G$ be a planar graph without 4-cycles and 5-cycles and with maximum degree $\Delta\ge 32$. We prove that $\chi_{\ell}(G^2)\le \Delta+3$. For arbitrarily large maximum degree $\Delta$, there exist planar graphs $G_{\Delta}$ of girth 6…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Daniel W. Cranston , Bobby Jaeger

Using some combinatorial techniques, in this note, it is proved that if $\alpha\geq 0.28866$, then any digraph on $n$ vertices with minimum outdegree at least $\alpha n$ contains a directed cycle of length at most 4.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-23 Hao Liang , Jun-Ming Xu

In 2022, Gao, Huo, Liu, and Ma proved that every graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$ contains $k$ admissible cycles, where a set of $k$ cycles is said to be admissible if their lengths form an arithmetic progression with common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jifu Lin

In 1963, Corr\'adi and Hajnal settled a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s by proving that, for all $k \geq 1$, any graph $G$ with $|G| \geq 3k$ and minimum degree at least $2k$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles. In 2008, Finkel proved that for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Theodore Molla , Michael Santana , Elyse Yeager

A $(d,h)$-decomposition of a graph $G$ is an ordered pair $(D, H)$ such that $H$ is a subgraph of $G$ of maximum degree at most $h$ and $D$ is an acyclic orientation of $G-E(H)$ with maximum out-degree at most $d$. In this paper, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Lingxi Li , Huajing Lu , Tao Wang , Xuding Zhu