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In this paper we provide some sufficient conditions for the existence of an odd or even cycle that passing a given vertex or an edge in $2$-connected or $2$-edge connected graphs. We provide some similar conditions for the existence of an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Saieed Akbari , Khashayar Etemadi , Peyman Ezzati , Mehrdad Ghadiri

In 1981, Bermond and Thomassen conjectured that for any positive integer $k$, every digraph with minimum out-degree at least $2k-1$ admits $k$ vertex-disjoint directed cycles. In this short paper, we verify the Bermond-Thomassen conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Gregory Gutin , Wei Li , Shujing Wang , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

For $k \ge 4$, a loose $k$-cycle $C_k$ is a hypergraph with distinct edges $e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_k$ such that consecutive edges (modulo $k$) intersect in exactly one vertex and all other pairs of edges are disjoint. Our main result is that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Dhruv Mubayi , Lujia Wang

Consider the random process that starts with $n$ vertices and no edges, where the edges of $K_n$ are added one at a time in a uniformly chosen random order $e_1, e_2,\ldots, e_{\binom{n}{2}}$. Let $T$ be the earliest time at which $e_1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Nir Lavee , Nati Linial

It is well-known that every tournament contains a Hamilton path, and every strongly connected tournament contains a Hamilton cycle. This paper establishes transversal generalizations of these classical results. For a collection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Jaehoon Kim , Hyunwoo Lee , Jaehyeon Seo

A multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete $c$-partite graph. In [L. Volkmann, A remark on cycles through an arc in strongly connected multipartite tournaments, Appl. Math. Lett. 20 (2007) 1148--1150], Volkmann proved that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-07 Alexandru I. Tomescu

Linial and Morgenstern conjectured that, among all $n$-vertex tournaments with $d\binom{n}{3}$ cycles of length three, the number of cycles of length four is asymptotically minimized by a random blow-up of a transitive tournament with all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Timothy F. N. Chan , Andrzej Grzesik , Daniel Kral , Jonathan A. Noel

Let $G$ be a Dirac graph, and let $S$ be a vertex subset of $G$, chosen uniformly at random. How likely is the induced subgraph $G[S]$ to be Hamiltonian? This question, proposed by Erd\H{o}s and Faudree in 1996, was recently resolved by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Zach Hunter , Teng Liu , Aleksa Milojević , Benny Sudakov

A tournament $T$ is a tournament completion of a bipartite tournament $D$ if $D$ is a spanning subdigraph of $T$, i.e., $V(D)=V(T)$ and $A(D)\subseteq A(T)$. If $C$ is a $k$-dicycle (i.e., directed cycle of length $k$) in a tournament…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-12 H. W. Willie Wong

An $n$-tournament $T$ with vertex set $V$ is simple if there is no subset $M$ of $V$ such that $2\leq \left \vert M\right \vert \leq n-1$ and for every $x\in V\setminus M$, either $M\rightarrow x$ or $x \rightarrow M$. The simplicity index…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Abderrahim Boussaïri , Soufiane Lakhlifi , Imane Talbaoui

We give a new theorem describing a relation between the quasi-random property of regular tournaments and their spectra. This provides many solutions to a constructing problem mentioned by Erd\H{o}s and Moon (1965) and Spencer (1985).

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Shohei Satake

Let c be an integer. A c-partite tournament is an orientation of a complete c-partite graph. A c-partite tournament is rich if it is strong, and each partite set has at least two vertices. In 1996, Guo and Volkmann characterized the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Jie Zhang , Zhilan Wang , Jin Yan

A conjecture of Thomassen from 1982 states that for every k there is an f(k) so that every strongly f(k)-connected tournament contains k edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles. A classical theorem of Camion, that every strongly connected tournament…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Daniela Kühn , John Lapinskas , Deryk Osthus , Viresh Patel

In 1982 Thomassen asked whether there exists an integer f(k,t) such that every strongly f(k,t)-connected tournament T admits a partition of its vertex set into t vertex classes V_1,...,V_t such that for all i the subtournament T[V_i]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Timothy Townsend

We show that a quasirandom $k$-uniform hypergraph $G$ has a tight Euler tour subject to the necessary condition that $k$ divides all vertex degrees. The case when $G$ is complete confirms a conjecture of Chung, Diaconis and Graham from 1989…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Stefan Glock , Felix Joos , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

An edge-colored graph is rainbow if all its edges are colored with distinct colors. For a fixed graph $H$, the rainbow Tur\'an number $\mathrm{ex}^{\ast}(n,H)$ is defined as the maximum number of edges in a properly edge-colored graph on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Shagnik Das , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

Let $TT_k$ denote the transitive tournament on $k$ vertices. Let $TT(h,k)$ denote the graph obtained from $TT_k$ by replacing each vertex with an independent set of size $h \geq 1$. The following result is proved: Let $c_2=1/2$, $c_3=5/6$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Raphael Yuster

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is said to be a \textit{$k$-threshold graph} with \textit{thresholds} $\theta_1<\theta_2<...<\theta_k$ if there is a map $r: V \longrightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that $uv\in E$ if and only if $\theta_i\le r(u)+r(v)$ holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Runze Wang

We prove that there exists a constant $c > 0$ such that the vertices of every strongly $c \cdot kt$-connected tournament can be partitioned into $t$ parts, each of which induces a strongly $k$-connected tournament. This is clearly tight up…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-04 António Girão , Shoham Letzter

A geodesic in a graph G is a shortest path between two vertices of G. For a specific function e(n) of n, we define an almost geodesic cycle C in G to be a cycle in which for every two vertices u and v in C, the distance d_G(u,v) is at least…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Itai Benjamini , Carlos Hoppen , Eran ofek , Pawel Pralat , Nick Wormald