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The girth of a graph $G$ is the length of a shortest cycle of $G$. Jiang (JCT-B, 2001) showed that every graph $G$ with girth at least $2\ell+1$ and minimum degree at least $k/\ell$ contains every tree $T$ with $k$ edges whose maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Junying Lu , Yaojun Chen

In this short note we prove that for every $k\in \mathbb{N}$ there is a $t_k\in\mathbb{N}$ such that for every digraph $G$ there are either $k$ edge-disjoint directed cycles in $G$ or a set $X$ of at most $t_k$ edges such that $G-X$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Matthias Heinlein , Arthur Ulmer

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

Consider a directed multigraph $D$ that is balanced (i.e., at each vertex, the indegree equals the outdegree). Let $A$ be its set of arcs. Fix an integer $k$. Let $s$ be a vertex of $D$. We show that the number of $k$-element subsets $B$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Darij Grinberg , Benjamin Liber

In 1963, Corr\'adi and Hajnal proved that for all $k\geq1$ and $n\geq3k$, every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta(G)\geq2k$ contains $k$ disjoint cycles. The bound $\delta(G) \geq 2k$ is sharp. Here we characterize those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-18 H. A. Kierstead , A. V. Kostochka , E. C. Yeager

In this paper, we consider a general degree sum condition sufficient to imply the existence of $k$ vertex-disjoint chorded cycles in a graph $G$. Let $\sigma_t(G)$ be the minimum degree sum of $t$ independent vertices of $G$. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Bradley Elliott , Ronald Gould , Kazuhide Hirohata

We show that for every $\eta>0$ every sufficiently large $n$-vertex oriented graph D of minimum semidegree exceeding $(1 + \eta) k/2$ contains every balanced antidirected tree with $k$ edges and bounded maximum degree, if $k \ge \eta n$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Maya Stein , Camila Zárate-Guerén

Thomassen, in 1983, conjectured that for a positive integer $k$, every $2$-connected non-bipartite graph of minimum degree at least $k + 1$ contains cycles of all lengths modulo $k$. In this paper, we settle this conjecture affirmatively.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Shuya Chiba , Tomoki Yamashita

Kelly, Kuehn and Osthus conjectured that for any l>3 and the smallest number k>2 that does not divide l, any large enough oriented graph G with minimum indegree and minimum outdegree at least \lfloor |V(G)|/k\rfloor +1 contains a directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Diana Piguet

For every fixed $k \ge 4$, it is proved that if an $n$-vertex directed graph has at most $t$ pairwise arc-disjoint directed $k$-cycles, then there exists a set of at most $\frac{2}{3}kt+ o(n^2)$ arcs that meets all directed $k$-cycles and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Raphael Yuster

We show that every sufficiently large oriented graph $G$ with minimum indegree and outdegree both at least $(3|V(G)|-1)/8$ contains every orientation of a Hamilton cycle. This result improves the approximate bound established by Kelly and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Guanghui Wang , Yun Wang , Zhiwei Zhang

A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Xiangzhou Liu , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

There has been extensive research on cycle lengths in graphs with large minimum degree. In this paper, we obtain several new and tight results in this area. Let $G$ be a graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$. We prove that if $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Chun-Hung Liu , Jie Ma

We prove that constant minimum degree already forces cycles with almost linearly many chords. Specifically, every graph $G$ with $\delta(G)\ge C$ contains a cycle of length $\ell\ge 4$ with $\Omega(\ell/\log^{C}\ell)$ chords for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Nemanja Draganić , António Girão

Let $n\geq 6,k\geq 0$ be two integers. Let $H$ be a graph of order $n$ with $k$ components, each of which is an even cycle of length at least $6$ and $G$ be a bipartite graph with bipartition $(X,Y)$ such that $|X|=|Y|\geq n/2$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Shengning Qiao , Bing Chen

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

Huang, Ma, Shapira, Sudakov and Yuster (Comb. Prob. Comput. 2013) proved that every Eulerian digraph of average out-degree $d$ has a directed cycle of length at least $\sqrt{d}.$ We improve the lower bound from $\sqrt{d}$ to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Fankang He , Anders Yeo

A digraph $D$ is $k$-linked if it satisfies that for every choice of disjoint sets $\{x_1,\ldots{},x_k\}$ and $\{y_1,\ldots{},y_k\}$ of vertices of $D$ there are vertex disjoint paths $P_1,\ldots{},P_k$ such that $P_i$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Kasper Skov Johansen

We propose the following conjecture extending Dirac's theorem: if $G$ is a graph with $n\ge 3$ vertices and minimum degree $\delta(G)\ge n/2$, then in every orientation of $G$ there is a Hamilton cycle with at least $\delta(G)$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

We prove several results concerning cycle tilings and $H$-factors in digraphs. We provide a minimum semi-degree condition for forcing a digraph to contain a given spanning collection of vertex-disjoint orientations of cycles. Our result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Theodore Molla , Andrew Treglown