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We prove a conjecture of Penrose about the standard random geometric graph process, in which n vertices are placed at random on the unit square and edges are sequentially added in increasing order of lengths taken in the l_p norm. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-28 Xavier Pérez-Giménez , Nicholas C. Wormald

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices and $D(G)$ its distance matrix. The formula for computing the determinant of this matrix in terms of the number of vertices is known when the graph is either a tree or {a} unicyclic graph. In…

We show that every $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph contains a Hamilton cycle for sufficiently large $n$, assuming that $d\geq \log^{6}n$ and $\lambda\leq cd$, where $c=\frac{1}{70000}$. This significantly improves a recent result of Glock, Correia…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Asaf Ferber , Jie Han , Dingjia Mao , Roman Vershynin

We study Hamiltonicity in random subgraphs of the hypercube $\mathcal{Q}^n$. Our first main theorem is an optimal hitting time result. Consider the random process which includes the edges of $\mathcal{Q}^n$ according to a uniformly chosen…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Padraig Condon , Alberto Espuny Díaz , António Girão , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We propose the following conjecture extending Dirac's theorem: if $G$ is a graph with $n\ge 3$ vertices and minimum degree $\delta(G)\ge n/2$, then in every orientation of $G$ there is a Hamilton cycle with at least $\delta(G)$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

We investigate the appearance of the square of a Hamilton cycle in the model of randomly perturbed graphs, which is, for a given $\alpha \in (0,1)$, the union of any $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\alpha n$ and the binomial random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Julia Böttcher , Olaf Parczyk , Amedeo Sgueglia , Jozef Skokan

We consider the random geometric graph on $n$ vertices drawn uniformly from a $d$--dimensional sphere. We focus on the sparse regime, when the expected degree is constant independent of $d$ and $n$. We show that, when $d$ is larger than $n$…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Elliot Paquette , Andrew Vander Werf

In an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices a tight Hamilton cycle consists of $n$ edges such that there exists a cyclic ordering of the vertices where the edges correspond to consecutive segments of $r$ vertices. We provide a first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Peter Allen , Christoph Koch , Olaf Parczyk , Yury Person

One of the most famous results in the theory of random graphs establishes that the threshold for Hamiltonicity in the Erdos-Renyi random graph G_{n,p} is around p ~ (log n + log log n) / n. Much research has been done to extend this to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Alan Frieze , Po-Shen Loh

Given a graph on $n$ vertices and an assignment of colours to the edges, a rainbow Hamilton cycle is a cycle of length $n$ visiting each vertex once and with pairwise different colours on the edges. Similarly (for even $n$) a rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Deepak Bal , Patrick Bennett , Xavier Pérez-Giménez , Paweł Prałat

We prove that a random graph $G(n,p)$, with $p$ above the Hamiltonicity threshold, is typically such that for any $r$-colouring of its edges there exists a Hamilton cycle with at least $(2/(r+ 1)-o(1))n$ edges of the same colour. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

Given a graph $\Gamma = (V, E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, we define the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph process with host $\Gamma$ as follows. A permutation $e_1,\dots,e_m$ of $E$ is chosen uniformly at random, and for $t\leq m$ we let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Tony Johansson

We present an algorithm CRE, which either finds a Hamilton cycle in a graph $G$ or determines that there is no such cycle in the graph. The algorithm's expected running time over input distribution $G\sim G(n,p)$ is $(1+o(1))n/p$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Yahav Alon , Michael Krivelevich

A Hamiltonian cycle of a graph is a closed path that visits every vertex once and only once. It has been difficult to count the number of Hamiltonian cycles on regular lattices with periodic boundary conditions, e.g. lattices on a torus,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saburo Higuchi

In this article, we analyze the limiting eigenvalue distribution (LED) of random geometric graphs (RGGs). The RGG is constructed by uniformly distributing $n$ nodes on the $d$-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^d \equiv [0, 1]^d$ and connecting…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Mounia Hamidouche , Laura Cottatellucci , Konstantin Avrachenkov

In this paper we consider the existence of Hamilton cycles in the random graph $G=G_{n,m}^{\delta\geq 3}$. This a random graph chosen uniformly from the set of graphs with vertex set $[n]$, $m$ edges and minimum degree at least 3. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze

We show that $p=\sqrt{\frac{e}{n}}$ is a sharp threshold for the random graph $G_{n,p}$ to contain the square of a Hamilton cycle. This improves the previous results of K\"uhn and Osthus and also Nenadov and \v{S}kori\'c.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze

We show for an arbitrary $\ell_p$ norm that the property that a random geometric graph $\mathcal G(n,r)$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle exhibits a sharp threshold at $r=r(n)=\sqrt{\frac{\log n}{\alpha_p n}}$, where $\alpha_p$ is the area of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Diaz , D. Mitsche , X. Perez

We study the Hamilton cycle problem with input a random graph G=G(n,p) in two settings. In the first one, G is given to us in the form of randomly ordered adjacency lists while in the second one we are given the adjacency matrix of G. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Michael Anastos

For positive integers $r > \ell \geq 1$, an $\ell$-cycle in an $r$-uniform hypergraph is a cycle where each edge consists of $r$ vertices and each pair of consecutive edges intersect in $\ell$ vertices. For $\ell \geq 2$, we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Byron Chin