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We study the existence of powers of Hamiltonian cycles in graphs with large minimum degree to which some additional edges have been added in a random manner. It follows from the theorems of Dirac and of Koml\'os, Sark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Andrzej Dudek , Christian Reiher , Andrzej Ruciński , Mathias Schacht

We prove a new sufficient pair degree condition for tight Hamiltonian cycles in $3$-uniform hypergraphs that (asymptotically) improves the best known pair degree condition due to R\"odl, Ruci\'nski, and Szemer\'edi. For graphs, Chv\'atal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Bjarne Schülke

A classic theorem of Dirac from 1952 states that every graph with minimum degree at least n/2 contains a Hamiltonian cycle. In 1963, P\'osa conjectured that every graph with minimum degree at least 2n/3 contains the square of a Hamiltonian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Louis DeBiasio , Safi Faizullah , Imdadullah Khan

We study the question of the least number of random edges that need to be added to a P\'osa-Seymour graph, that is, a graph with minimum degree exceeding $\frac k{k+1}n$, to secure the existence of the $m$-th power of a Hamiltonian cycle,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Sylwia Antoniuk , Andrzej Dudek , Andrzej Ruciński

In this paper we give an approximate answer to a question of Nash-Williams from 1970: we show that for every \alpha > 0, every sufficiently large graph on n vertices with minimum degree at least (1/2 + \alpha)n contains at least n/8…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Demetres Christofides , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

A subset $C$ of edges in a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is a \emph{loose Hamilton cycle} if $C$ covers all the vertices of $H$ and there exists a cyclic ordering of these vertices such that the edges in $C$ are segments of that order and such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Asaf Ferber , Kyle Luh , Daniel Montealegre , Oanh Nguyen

A tight $k$-uniform $\ell$-cycle, denoted by $TC_\ell^k$, is a $k$-uniform hypergraph whose vertex set is $v_0, \cdots, v_{\ell-1}$, and the edges are all the $k$-tuples $\{v_i, v_{i+1}, \cdots, v_{i+k-1}\}$, with subscripts modulo $\ell$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Hao Huang , Jie Ma

We study the existence of a directed Hamilton cycle in random digraphs with $m$ edges where we condition on minimum in- and out-degree at least one. Denote such a random graph by $D_{n,m}^{(\delta\geq1)}$. We prove that if $m=\tfrac n2(\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze

Let H be a 3-uniform hypergraph with N vertices. A tight Hamilton cycle C \subset H is a collection of N edges for which there is an ordering of the vertices v_1, ..., v_N such that every triple of consecutive vertices {v_i, v_{i+1},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-09 Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich , Po-Shen Loh

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

Let $EG_r(n,k)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph with no Berge cycles of length $k$ or longer. In the first part of this work, we have found exact values of $EG_r(n,k)$ and described the structure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Zoltan Furedi , Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

We prove that the minimum number of Hamilton cycles in a hamiltonian threshold graph of order $n$ is $2^{\lfloor (n-3)/2\rfloor}$ and this minimum number is attained uniquely by the graph with degree sequence $n-1,n-1,n-2,\ldots,\lceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Pu Qiao , Xingzhi Zhan

The $k$-expansion of a graph $G$ is the $k$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $G$ by adding $k-2$ new vertices to every edge. We determine, for all $k > d \geq 1$, asymptotically optimal $d$-degree conditions that ensure the existence of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Mengjiao Rao , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala , Lin Sun , Guanghui Wang , Wenling Zhou

A graph is called $2K_2$-free if it does not contain two independent edges as an induced subgraph. Broersma, Patel, and Pyatkin showed that every 25-tough $2K_2$-free graph with at least three vertices is hamiltonian. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Songling Shan

We consider a game played on an initially empty graph where two players alternate drawing an edge between vertices subject to the condition that no degree can exceed $k$. We show that for $k=3$, either player can avoid a Hamilton cycle, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Jeremy Meza , Samuel Simon

We show that for $k \geq 2$, there exists a function $f(k) = O(k)$ such that every $k$-connected graph $G$ of order $n \geq f(k)$ with minimum degree at least $\frac{n}{2}$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle $H$ such that $G-E(H)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Toru Hasunuma

In this paper we study the maximum number of hyperedges which may be in an $r$-uniform hypergraph under the restriction that no pair of vertices has more than $t$ Berge paths of length $k$ between them. When $r=t=2$, this is the even-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Zhiyang He , Michael Tait

We present a general method for counting and packing Hamilton cycles in dense graphs and oriented graphs, based on permanent estimates. We utilize this approach to prove several extremal results. In particular, we show that every nearly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

We show that a quasirandom $k$-uniform hypergraph $G$ has a tight Euler tour subject to the necessary condition that $k$ divides all vertex degrees. The case when $G$ is complete confirms a conjecture of Chung, Diaconis and Graham from 1989…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Stefan Glock , Felix Joos , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Let $H_{n,p,r}^{(k)}$ denote a randomly colored random hypergraph, constructed on the vertex set $[n]$ by taking each $k$-tuple independently with probability $p$, and then independently coloring it with a random color from the set $[r]$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Andrzej Dudek , Sean English , Alan Frieze