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In this paper, factorizations of the complete symmetric digraph $K_v^*$ into uniform factors consisting of directed even cycle factors are studied as a generalization of the undirected Hamilton-Waterloo Problem. It is shown, with a few…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Fatih Yetgin , Uğur Odabaşı , Sibel Özkan

We prove that $K_n+I$, the complete graph of an even order with a $1$-factor duplicated, admits a decomposition into $2$-factors, each a disjoint union of cycles of length $m \geq 5$ if and only if $m \mid n$, except possibly when $m$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Noah Bolohan , Iona Buchanan , Andrea Burgess , Mateja Šajna , Ryan Van Snick

For each $k \geq 3$ and $1 \leq \ell \leq k-1$ we give an asymptotically best possible minimum positive codegree condition for the existence of a Hamilton $\ell$-cycle in a $k$-uniform hypergraph. This result exhibits an interesting duality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Richard Mycroft , Camila Zárate-Guerén

We give a polynomial improvement to the cycle-complete Ramsey numbers \[ r(C_{\ell},K_k) \geq k^{1+1/(\ell- 2) + \varepsilon_{\ell} + o(1)}, \] for all fixed odd $\ell > 7$ with $k \rightarrow \infty$, for some $\varepsilon_{\ell} > 0$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Marcelo Campos , Matthew Jenssen , Marcus Michelen , Florian Pfender , Julian Sahasrabudhe

We show that for all $\ell, k, n$ with $\ell \leq k/2$ and $(k-\ell)$ dividing $n$ the following hypergraph-variant of Lehel's conjecture is true. Every $2$-edge-colouring of the $k$-uniform complete hypergraph $\mathcal{K}_n^{(k)}$ on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Sebastian Bustamante , Maya Stein

The Oberwolfach problem, posed by Ringel in 1967, asks for a decomposition of $K_{2n+1}$ into edge-disjoint copies of a given $2$-factor. We show that this can be achieved for all large $n$. We actually prove a significantly more general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Stefan Glock , Felix Joos , Jaehoon Kim , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

For each odd $m \geq 3$ we completely solve the problem of when an $m$-cycle system of order $u$ can be embedded in an $m$-cycle system of order $v$, barring a finite number of possible exceptions. In cases where $u$ is large compared to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Daniel Horsley , Rosalind A. Hoyte

We say that a $k$-uniform hypergraph $C$ is a Hamilton cycle of type $\ell$, for some $1\le \ell \le k$, if there exists a cyclic ordering of the vertices of $C$ such that every edge consists of $k$ consecutive vertices and for every pair…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich

Let $\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$ be a finite field of $2^m$ elements, and $R=\mathbb{F}_{2^m}[u]/\langle u^k\rangle=\mathbb{F}_{2^m}+u\mathbb{F}_{2^m}+\ldots+u^{k-1}\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$ ($u^k=0$) where $k$ is an integer satisfying $k\geq 2$. For any odd…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yonglin Cao , Yuan Cao , Fang-Wei Fu

How many copies of a fixed odd cycle, $C_{2m+1}$, can a planar graph contain? We answer this question asymptotically for $m\in\{2,3,4\}$ and prove a bound which is tight up to a factor of $3/2$ for all other values of $m$. This extends the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Emily Heath , Ryan R. Martin , Chris Wells

The Hamilton-Waterloo problem is a problem of graph factorization. The Hamilton-Waterloo problem HWP$(H;m,n;\alpha,\beta)$ asks for a $2$-factorization of $H$ containing $\alpha$ $C_m$-factors and $\beta$ $C_n$-factors. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-25 L. Wang , H. Cao

Let $k$ and $\ell$ be positive integers. A cycle with two blocks $c(k,\ell)$ is an oriented cycle which consists of two internally (vertex) disjoint directed paths of lengths at least $k$ and $\ell$, respectively, from a vertex to another…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Ringi Kim , Seog-Jin Kim , Jie Ma , Boram Park

Given integers $k,l\geq 2$, where either $l$ is odd or $k$ is even, let $n(k,l)$ denote the largest integer $n$ such that each element of $A_n$ is a product of $k$ many $l$-cycles. In 2008, M. Herzog, G. Kaplan and A. Lev conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Harish Kishnani , Rijubrata Kundu , Sumit Chandra Mishra

For any fixed $k\geq 2$, we prove that every sufficiently large integer can be expressed as the sum of a $k$th power of a prime and a number with at most $M(k)=6k$ prime factors. For sufficiently large $k$ we also show that one can take…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Daniel R. Johnston , Simon N. Thomas

We prove that for integers $2 \leq \ell < k$ and a small constant $c$, if a $k$-uniform hypergraph with linear minimum codegree is randomly `perturbed' by changing non-edges to edges independently at random with probability $p \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Andrew McDowell , Richard Mycroft

This paper deals with multiplicity of rotation type solutions for Hamiltonian systems on $T^\ell\times \mathbb{R}^{2n-\ell}$. It is proved that, for every spatially periodic Hamiltonian system, i.e., the case $\ell=n$, there exist at least…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Hui Qiao

An {\em $\ell$-offset Hamilton cycle} $C$ in a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ on~$n$ vertices is a collection of edges of $H$ such that for some cyclic order of $[n]$ every pair of consecutive edges $E_{i-1},E_i$ in $C$ (in the natural ordering…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Andrzej Dudek , Laars Helenius

In 1999, Jacobson and Lehel conjectured that for $k \geq 3$, every $k$-regular Hamiltonian graph has cycles of at least linearly many different lengths. This was further strengthened by Verstra\"{e}te, who asked whether the regularity can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Matija Bucić , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

We consider the problem of constructing a cyclic listing of all bitstrings of length $2n+1$ with Hamming weights in the interval $[n+1-\ell,n+\ell]$, where $1\leq \ell\leq n+1$, by flipping a single bit in each step. This is a far-ranging…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Petr Gregor , Sven Jäger , Torsten Mütze , Joe Sawada , Kaja Wille

We prove that for n>2 there exists a quandle of cyclic type of size n if and only if n is a power of a prime number. This establishes a conjecture of S. Kamada, H. Tamaru and K. Wada. As a corollary, every finite quandle of cyclic type is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Leandro Vendramin