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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

We investigate Hamilton cycles in edge-colored graphs with \( r \) colors, focusing on the notion of color-bias (discrepancy), the maximum deviation from uniform color frequencies along a cycle. Foundational work by Balogh, Csaba, Jing, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Wenchong Chen , Mingyuan Rong , Zixiang Xu

In 2019, Aharoni proposed a conjecture generalizing the Caceetta-H\"aggkvist conjecture: if an $n$-vertex graph $G$ admits an edge coloring (not necessarily proper) with $n$ colors such that each color class has size at least $r$, then $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 He Guo

For each $k \geq 3$ and $1 \leq \ell \leq k-1$ we give an asymptotically best possible minimum positive codegree condition for the existence of a Hamilton $\ell$-cycle in a $k$-uniform hypergraph. This result exhibits an interesting duality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Richard Mycroft , Camila Zárate-Guerén

Investigating a problem of B. Mohar, we show that every one-ended Hamiltonian cubic graph with end degree 3 contains a second Hamilton cycle. We also construct two examples showing that this result does not extend to give a third Hamilton…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Max Pitz

In 1960, Ghouila-Houri proved that every strongly connected directed graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $n$ contains a directed Hamilton cycle. We asymptotically generalize this result by proving the following: every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Louis DeBiasio , Andrew Treglown

We investigate the existence of a rainbow Hamilton cycle in a uniformly edge-coloured randomly perturbed digraph. We show that for every $\delta \in (0,1)$ there exists $C = C(\delta) > 0$ such that the following holds. Let $D_0$ be an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Shoham Letzter , Amedeo Sgueglia

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

Finding spanning structures with many distinct colours in properly edge-coloured graphs is a central theme in extremal combinatorics. A classical result of Andersen shows that every proper edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Xinbu Cheng , Xinqi Huang , Hong Liu , Bin Wang , Zhifei Yan

We consider how many random edges need to be added to a graph of order $n$ with minimum degree $\alpha n$ in order that it contains the square of a Hamilton cycle w.h.p..

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Patrick Bennett , Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze

We conjecture that every oriented graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with $\delta ^+ (G) , \delta ^- (G) \geq 5n/12$ contains the square of a Hamilton cycle. We also give a conjectural bound on the minimum semidegree which ensures a perfect packing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Andrew Treglown

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

We show that the threshold for the random graph $G_{n,p}$ to contain the square of a Hamilton cycle is $p=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$. This improves the previous results of K\"uhn and Osthus and also Nenadov and \v{S}kori\'c. In addition we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Patrick Bennett , Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze

A covering of a digraph $D$ by Hamilton cycles is a collection of directed Hamilton cycles (not necessarily edge-disjoint) that together cover all the edges of $D$. We prove that for $1/2 \geq p\geq \frac{\log^{20} n}{n}$, the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Asaf Ferber , Marcelo Sales , Mason Shurman

Rosenfeld in 1974 conjectured that there is an integer N > 8 such that every tournament of order n > N contains every non-directed cycle of order n. We prove that, with exactly 35 exceptions, every tournament of order n > 2 contains each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Ayman El Zein

Cohen et al. conjectured that for every oriented cycle $C$ there exist an integer $f(C)$ such that every strong $f(C)$-chromatic digraph contains a subdivision of $C$. El Joubbeh confirmed this conjecture for Hamiltonian digraphs. Indeed,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Abbas Alhakim , Mouhamad El Joubbeh

A path (cycle) is properly-colored if consecutive edges are of distinct colors. In 1997, Bang-Jensen and Gutin conjectured a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Hamilton path in an edge-colored complete graph. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Ruonan Li , Bo Ning

In this paper we consider the existence of Hamilton cycles in the random graph $G=G_{n,m}^{\delta\geq 3}$. This a random graph chosen uniformly from the set of graphs with vertex set $[n]$, $m$ edges and minimum degree at least 3. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze

We show that with high probability we can build a Hamilton cycle after at most $1.85 n$ rounds in a particular semi-random model. In this model, in one round, we are given a {uniform random} $v\in[n]$ and then we can add an {arbitrary} edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Alan Frieze , Gregory B. Sorkin

We show that every $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph contains a Hamilton cycle for sufficiently large $n$, assuming that $d\geq \log^{6}n$ and $\lambda\leq cd$, where $c=\frac{1}{70000}$. This significantly improves a recent result of Glock, Correia…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Asaf Ferber , Jie Han , Dingjia Mao , Roman Vershynin