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Dirac proved that each $n$-vertex $2$-connected graph with minimum degree $k$ contains a cycle of length at least $\min\{2k, n\}$. We obtain analogous results for Berge cycles in hypergraphs. Recently, the authors proved an exact lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo , Grace McCourt

A {\em hole} in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of length at least four. A hole is called {\em even} if it has an even number of vertices. An {\em even-hole-free} graph is a graph with no even holes. A vertex of a graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Maria Chudnovsky , Paul Seymour

Which $2$-regular subgraph $R$ of a cubic graph $G$ can be extended to a cycle double cover of $G$? We provide a condition which ensures that every $R$ satisfying this condition is part of a cycle double cover of $G$. As one consequence, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof , Cun-Quan Zhang , Zhang Zhang

We study the class of simple graphs $\mathcal{G}^*$ for which every pair of distinct odd cycles intersect in at most one edge. We give a structural characterization of the graphs in $\mathcal{G}^*$ and prove that every $G \in \mathcal{G}^*$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Jessica McDonald , Gregory J. Puleo

A chorded cycle in a graph $G$ is a cycle on which two nonadjacent vertices are adjacent in the graph $G$. In 2010, Gao and Qiao independently proved a graph of order at least $4s$, in which the neighborhood union of any two nonadjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Zaiping Lu , Shudan Xue

A chorded cycle is a cycle with at least one chord. Gould asked in [Graphs Comb. 38 (2022) 189] the question: What spectral conditions imply a graph contains a chorded cycle? For a graph with fixed size, extremal spectral conditions are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Jin Cai , Leyou Xu , Bo Zhou

We prove that for every set $S$ of vertices of a directed graph $D$, the maximum number of vertices in $S$ contained in a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles in $D$ is at least the minimum size of a set of vertices that hits all cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Nathan Bowler , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Florian Gut , Raphael W. Jacobs , Florian Reich

The Cycle double cover (CDC) conjecture states that for every bridgeless graph $G$, there exists a family $\mathcal{F}$ of cycles such that each edge of the graph is contained in exactly two members of $\mathcal{F}$. Given an embedding of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Babak Ghanbari , Robert Šámal

We give a characterization of when a signed graph $G$ with a pair of distinguished edges $e_1, e_2 \in E(G)$ has the property that all cycles containing both $e_1$ and $e_2$ have the same sign. This answers a question of Zaslavsky.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Matt DeVos , Kathryn Nurse

A graph is said to be edge-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on its edges. It is known that edge-transitive graphs are either vertex-transitive or bipartite. In this paper we present a complete classification of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Heather A. Newman , Hector Miranda , Darren A. Narayan

In this paper, we study the stability result of a well-known theorem of Bondy. We prove that for any 2-connected non-hamiltonian graph, if every vertex except for at most one vertex has degree at least $k$, then it contains a cycle of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Bo Ning , Long-tu Yuan

In this short note we determine the maximum number, over all $n$-vertex graphs $G$, of orientations of $G$ containing no strongly connected cycle $C_{2k+1}$. This answers a part of a recent question of Araujo, Botler and Mota.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 M. Bucić , B. Sudakov

The Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem states that for $k \geq 2$, every graph of average degree more than $k - 2$ contains a $k$-vertex path. This result is a consequence of a stronger result of Kopylov: if $k$ is odd, $k=2t+1\geq 5$, $n \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Zoltán Füredi , Alexandr Kostochka , Jacques Verstraëte

We show that every $2$-connected cubic graph $G$ has a cycle double cover if $G$ has a spanning subgraph $F$ such that (i) every component of $F$ has an even number of vertices (ii) every component of $F$ is either a cycle or a subdivision…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Herbert Fleischner , Roland Häggkvist , Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof

If a graph has $n\ge4k$ vertices and more than $n^2/4$ edges, then it contains a copy of $C_{2k+1}$. In 1992, Erd\H{o}s, Faudree and Rousseau showed even more, that the number of edges that occur in a triangle is at least $2\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Andrzej Grzesik , Ping Hu , Jan Volec

A properly colored cycle (path) in an edge-colored graph is a cycle (path) with consecutive edges assigned distinct colors. A monochromatic triangle is a cycle of length $3$ with the edges assigned a same color. It is known that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Ruonan Li

A classical result of Bondy and Simonovits in extremal graph theory states that if a graph on $n$ vertices contains no cycle of length $2k$ then it has at most $O(n^{1+1/k})$ edges. However, matching lower bounds are only known for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Ervin Győri , Dániel Korándi , Abhishek Methuku , István Tomon , Casey Tompkins , Máté Vizer

Liu and Ma [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 2018] conjectured that every $2$-connected non-bipartite graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$ contains $\lceil k/2\rceil $ cycles with consecutive odd lengths. In particular, they showed that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Hao Lin , Guanghui Wang , Wenling Zhou

For a graph with edge ordering, a linear order on the edge set, we obtain a permutation of vertices by considering the edges as transpositions of endvertices. It is known from D\'enes' results that the permutation of a tree is a full cyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Ryo Uchiumi

For graphs $G$ and $H$, we say that $G$ is $H$-free if no induced subgraph of $G$ is isomorphic to $H$, and that $G$ is $H$-induced-saturated if $G$ is $H$-free but removing or adding any edge in $G$ creates an induced copy of $H$. A full…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Xinyue Fan , Sahab Hajebi , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl