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In 1979 Babai found a clever argument to prove that every connected vertex transitive graph on $n \ge 3$ vertices contains a cycle of length at least $\sqrt{3n}$. Here we modify his approach to show that such graphs must contain a cycle of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Matt DeVos

A cornerstone of extremal graph theory due to Erd\H{o}s and Stone states that the edge density which guarantees a fixed graph $F$ as subgraph also asymptotically guarantees a blow-up of $F$ as subgraph. It is natural to ask whether this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Richard Lang , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

Twenty years ago Bondy and Vince conjectured that for any nonnegative integer $k$, except finitely many counterexamples, every graph with $k$ vertices of degree less than three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Jun Gao , Jie Ma

In the standard random graph process, edges are added to an initially empty graph one by one uniformly at random. A classic result by Ajtai, Koml\'os, and Szemer\'edi, and independently by Bollob\'as, states that in the standard random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Seonghyuk Im , Minseo Kim

We generalise a result of Corr\'{a}di and Hajnal and show that every graph with average degree at least $\tfrac{4}{3}kr$ contains $k$ vertex disjoint cycles, each of order at least $r$, as long as $k \geq 6$. This bound is sharp when $r=3$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

Compared to the classical binomial random (hyper)graph model, the study of random regular hypergraphs is made more challenging due to correlations between the occurrence of different edges. We develop an edge-switching technique for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Felix Joos , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

In this note we asymptotically determine the maximum number of hyperedges possible in an $r$-uniform, connected $n$-vertex hypergraph without a Berge path of length $k$, as $n$ and $k$ tend to infinity. We show that, unlike in the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ervin Győri , Abhishek Methuku , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Máté Vizer

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph obtained by adding chords to a cycle of length $n$. Markstr\"{o}m asked for the maximum number of edges in $G$ if there are no two cycles in $G$ with the same length. A simple counting argument shows that such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Joey Lee , Craig Timmons

Erd\"os conjectured that if $G$ is a triangle free graph of chromatic number at least $k\geq 3$, then it contains an odd cycle of length at least $k^{2-o(1)}$ \cite{sudakovverstraete, verstraete}. Nothing better than a linear bound…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-09-11 Ajit A. Diwan , Sreyash Kenkre , Sundar Vishwanathan

We prove the following theorem. Let $r\ge 4$ be an integer, and $G$ be a $K_{1,r}$-free $r$-edge-connected $r$-regular graph. Then, for every set $W$ of even number of vertices of $G$ such that the distance between any two vertices of $W$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Yoshimi Egawa , Mikio Kano , Kenta Ozeki

We show that every $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices which does not contain a tight cycle has at most $O(n^{r-1} (\log n)^5)$ edges. This is an improvement on the previously best-known bound, of $n^{r-1} e^{O(\sqrt{\log n})}$, due to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Shoham Letzter

A conjecture by Lichiardopol states that for every $k \ge 1$ there exists an integer $g(k)$ such that every digraph of minimum out-degree at least $g(k)$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint directed cycles of pairwise distinct lengths. Motivated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Raphael Steiner

For fixed $k\ge 2$, determining the order of magnitude of the number of edges in an $n$-vertex bipartite graph not containing $C_{2k}$, the cycle of length $2k$, is a long-standing open problem. We consider an extension of this problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sayan Mukherjee

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

The main topic considered is maximizing the number of cycles in a graph with given number of edges. In 2009, Kir\'aly conjectured that there is constant $c$ such that any graph with $m$ edges has at most $(1.4)^m$ cycles. In this paper, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Andrii Arman , Sergei Tsaturian

Given a graph $F$, a hypergraph is called a Berge-$F$ if it can be obtained by expanding each edge of $F$ into a hyperedge containing it. Let $M_{k}$ denote the matching of size $k$. Kang, Ni, and Shan [12] determined the Tur\'an number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Jia-Bao Yang , Leilei Zhang

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a given finite (possibly empty) family of connected graphs, each containing a cycle, and let $G$ be an arbitrary finite $\mathcal{H}$-free graph with minimum degree at least $k$. For $p \in [0,1]$, we form a $p$-random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Michael Krivelevich , Wojciech Samotij

We prove that any $3$-uniform hypergraph whose minimum vertex degree is at least $\left(\frac{5}{9} + o(1) \right)\binom{n}{2}$ admits an almost-spanning tight cycle, that is, a tight cycle leaving $o(n)$ vertices uncovered. The bound on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Oliver Cooley , Richard Mycroft

The famous Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem on the Tur\'an number of paths states that every graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges contains a path with at least $\frac{2m}{n}$ edges. In this note, we first establish a simple but novel extension of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Bo Ning , Xing Peng

For an integer $r\geqslant 3$, a hypergraph on vertex set $[n]$ is $r$-uniform if each edge is a set of $r$ vertices, and is said to be linear if every two distinct edges share at most one vertex. Given a family $\mathcal{H}$ of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Fang Tian , Yiting Yang , Xiying Yuan