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A classical theorem of Ghouila-Houri from 1960 asserts that every directed graph on $n$ vertices with minimum out-degree and in-degree at least $n/2$ contains a directed Hamilton cycle. In this paper we extend this theorem to a random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Dan Hefetz , Angelika Steger , Benny Sudakov

We prove that, for large $n$, every $3$-connected $D$-regular graph on $n$ vertices with $D \geq n/4$ is Hamiltonian. This is best possible and confirms a conjecture posed independently by Bollob\'as and H\"aggkvist in the 1970s. The proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Deryk Osthus , Katherine Staden

Let $G$ be a $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices. Frieze, Gould, Karo\'nski and Pfender began the study of the following random spanning subgraph model $H=H(G)$. Assign independently to each vertex $v$ of $G$ a uniform random number $x(v) \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Jacob Fox , Sammy Luo , Huy Tuan Pham

A graph homomorphism between two graphs is a map from the vertex set of one graph to the vertex set of the other graph, that maps edges to edges. In this note we study the range of a uniformly chosen homomorphism from a graph G to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-21 Itai Benjamini , Ariel Yadin , Amir Yehudayoff

Given $k\ge3$ and $1\leq \ell< k$, an $(\ell,k)$-cycle is one in which consecutive edges, each of size $k$, overlap in exactly $\ell$ vertices. We study the smallest number of edges in $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraphs which do not contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Andrzej Ruciński , Andrzej Żak

It is a classical result that a random permutation of $n$ elements has, on average, about $\log n$ cycles. We generalise this fact to all directed $d$-regular graphs on $n$ vertices by showing that, on average, a random cycle-factor of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser

Using an improved backtrack algorithm with sophisticated pruning techniques, we revise previous observations correlating a high frequency of hard to solve Hamiltonian Cycle instances with the Gn,m phase transition between Hamiltonicity and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 J. Culberson , B. Vandegriend

We investigate the existence of a rainbow Hamilton cycle in a uniformly edge-coloured randomly perturbed digraph. We show that for every $\delta \in (0,1)$ there exists $C = C(\delta) > 0$ such that the following holds. Let $D_0$ be an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Shoham Letzter , Amedeo Sgueglia

In this paper, we develop a new rainbow Hamilton framework, which is of independent interest, settling the problem proposed by Gupta, Hamann, M\"{u}yesser, Parczyk, and Sgueglia when $k=3$, and draw the general conclusion for any $k\geq3$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Yucong Tang , Bin Wang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan

Fix a positive integer $n$, a real number $p\in (0,1]$, and a (perhaps random) hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ on $[n]$. We introduce and investigate the following random multigraph model, which we denote $\mathbb{G}(n,p\, ; \,\mathcal{H})$: begin…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Christos Pelekis

In this paper we consider the existence of Hamilton cycles and perfect matchings in a random graph model proposed by Krioukov et al.~in 2010. In this model, nodes are chosen randomly inside a disk in the hyperbolic plane and two nodes are…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Dieter Mitsche , Tobias Müller , Markus Schepers

The odd-Ramsey number $r_{{\text odd}}(n,H)$ of a graph $H$, as introduced by Alon in his work on graph-codes, is the minimum number of colours needed to edge-colour $K_n$ so that every copy of $H$ intersects some colour class in an odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Simona Boyadzhiyska , Shagnik Das , Thomas Lesgourgues , Kalina Petrova

A graph $G$ is $l$-path Hamiltonian if every path of length not exceeding $l$ is contained in a Hamiltonian cycle. It is well known that a 2-connected, $k$-regular graph $G$ on at most $3k-1$ vertices is edge-Hamiltonian if for every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Xia Li , Weihua Yang

We determine the sharp threshold for Hamilton cycles in randomly perturbed sparse graphs. For any $\alpha=\alpha(n)=o(1)$, let $G_{\alpha}$ be an $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\delta(G_{\alpha})\ge\alpha n$. We prove that if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Guorui Ma , Zhifei Yan

The (k,d)-hypersimplex is a (d-1)-dimensional polytope whose vertices are the (0,1)-vectors that sum to k. When k=1, we get a simplex whose graph is the complete graph with d vertices. Here we show how many of the well known graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-11-19 Fred J. Rispoli

We employ the absorbing-path method in order to prove two results regarding the emergence of tight Hamilton cycles in the so called {\em two-path} or {\em cherry}-quasirandom $3$-graphs. Our first result asserts that for any fixed real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Elad Aigner Horev , Gil Levy

We prove that, in the Gilbert model for a random geometric graph, almost every graph becomes Hamiltonian exactly when it first becomes 2-connected. This answers a question of Penrose. We also show that in the k-nearest neighbor model, there…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-09 József Balogh , Béla Bollobás , Michael Krivelevich , Tobias Müller , Mark Walters

We prove for all $k\geq 4$ and $1\leq\ell<k/2$ the sharp minimum $(k-2)$-degree bound for a $k$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal H$ on $n$ vertices to contain a Hamiltonian $\ell$-cycle if $k-\ell$ divides $n$ and $n$ is sufficiently large.…

We consider the existence of patterned Hamilton cycles in randomly colored random graphs. Given a string $\Pi$ over a set of colors $\{1,2,\ldots,r\}$, we say that a Hamilton cycle is $\Pi$-colored if the pattern repeats at intervals of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze

Let $\mathcal{G}(k)$ denote the set of connected $k$-regular graphs $G$, $k\geq2$, where the number of vertices at distance 2 from any vertex in $G$ does not exceed $k$. Asratian (2006) showed (using other terminology) that a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Armen S. Asratian , Jonas B. Granholm