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Generalizing both Dirac's condition and Ore's condition for Hamilton cycles, Chv\'atal in 1972 established a degree sequence condition for the existence of a Hamilton cycle in a graph. Ho\`ang in 1995 generalized Chv\'atal's degree sequence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Songling Shan , Arthur Tanyel

We propose an improved algorithm for counting the number of Hamiltonian cycles in a directed graph. The basic idea of the method is sequential acceptance/rejection, which is successfully used in approximating the number of perfect matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-23 Jinshan Zhang

In this paper we give a proof of Enomoto's conjecture for graphs of sufficiently large order. Enomoto's conjecture states that, if $G$ is a graph of order $n$ with minimum degree $\delta(G)\geq \frac{n}{2}+1$, then for any pair of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Weihua He , Hao Li , Qiang Sun

The Szemer\'edi Regularity Lemma, in combination with the Blow-up Lemma, form the Regularity Method, a fundamental tool in graph embeddings, albeit restricted to very large and dense graphs. We propose an alternative vertex-partitioning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Béla Csaba

We prove a generalization of the Expander Mixing Lemma for arbitrary (finite) simplicial complexes. The original lemma states that concentration of the Laplace spectrum of a graph implies combinatorial expansion (which is also referred to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Ori Parzanchevski

Dirac proved that any graph with minimum vertex degree $\delta$ contains either a cycle of length at least $2\delta$ or a Hamilton cycle. Motivated by this result, we characterize those graphs having no cycle longer than $2\delta$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Galen E. Turner

A step forward is made in a long standing Lov\'{a}sz's problem regarding hamiltonicity of vertex-transitive graphs by showing that every connected vertex-transitive graph of order a product of two primes, other than the Petersen graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Shaofei Du , Klavdija Kutnar , Dragan Marusic

Highly connected and yet sparse graphs (such as expanders or graphs of high treewidth) are fundamental, widely applicable and extensively studied combinatorial objects. We initiate the study of such highly connected graphs that are, in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmovic , Pat Morin , Michiel Smid

We develop a new technique that allows us to show in a unified way that many well-known combinatorial theorems, including Tur\'an's theorem, Szemer\'edi's theorem and Ramsey's theorem, hold almost surely inside sparse random sets. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-03 D. Conlon , W. T. Gowers

In this paper, we prove that for each $d \geq 2$, the union of a $d$-regular graph with a uniformly random $2$-factor on the same vertex set is Hamiltonian with high probability. This resolves a conjecture by Dragani\'c and Keevash for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Cicely , Henderson , Sean Longbrake , Dingjia Mao , Patryk Morawski

In 1972, Woodall raised the following Ore type condition for directed Hamilton cycles in digraphs: Let $D$ be a digraph. If for every vertex pair $u$ and $v$, where there is no arc from $u$ to $v$, we have $d^+u)+d^-(v)\geq |D|$, then $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Zan-Bo Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Xuelian Wen

In the model of randomly perturbed graphs we consider the union of a deterministic graph $\mathcal{G}_\alpha$ with minimum degree $\alpha n$ and the binomial random graph $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$. This model was introduced by Bohman, Frieze, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Max Hahn-Klimroth , Giulia S. Maesaka , Yannick Mogge , Samuel Mohr , Olaf Parczyk

In this paper we show that $e/n$ is the sharp threshold for the existence of tight Hamilton cycles in random $k$-uniform hypergraphs, for all $k\ge 4$. When $k=3$ we show that $1/n$ is an asymptotic threshold. We also determine thresholds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze

Motivated to find the answers to some of the questions that have occurred in recent papers dealing with Hamiltonian cycles (abbreviated HCs) in some special classes of grid graphs we started the investigation of spanning unions of cycles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jelena Djokić , Olga Bodroža-Pantić , Ksenija Doroslovački

We show that every $3$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $|V(H)|=n$ and minimum pair degree at least $(4/5+o(1))n$ contains a squared Hamiltonian cycle. This may be regarded as a first step towards a hypergraph version of the P\'osa-Seymour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Wiebke Bedenknecht , Christian Reiher

We study the powers of Hamiltonian cycles in randomly augmented Dirac graphs, that is, $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with minimum degree at least $(1/2+\varepsilon)n$ to which some random edges are added. For any Dirac graph and every integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Sylwia Antoniuk , Andrzej Dudek , Andrzej Ruciński

In 1962, P\'osa conjectured that a graph $G=(V, E)$ contains a square of a Hamiltonian cycle if $\delta(G)\ge 2n/3$. Only more than thirty years later Koml\'os, S\'ark\H{o}zy, and Szemer\'edi proved this conjecture using the so-called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Andreas Noever , Angelika Steger

We prove that every $3$-graph $H$ on $n$ vertices with minimum codegree $\delta_2(H) \geq 7n/9 + o(n)$ contains the square of a tight Hamilton cycle. This strengthens a theorem of Bedenknecht and Reiher that $\delta_2(H) \geq 4n/5 + o(n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Debmalya Bandyopadhyay , Allan Lo , Richard Mycroft

We develop a new method for constructing approximate decompositions of dense graphs into sparse graphs and apply it to longstanding decomposition problems. For instance, our results imply the following. Let $G$ be a quasi-random $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Jaehoon Kim , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

We show that every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices whose minimum $(k-2)$-degree is at least $(5/9+o(1))n^2/2$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle. A construction due to Han and Zhao shows that this minimum degree condition is optimal. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Joanna Polcyn , Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Bjarne Schülke