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In this work we are interested in the Demyanov--Ryabova conjecture for a finite family of polytopes. The conjecture asserts that after a finite number of iterations (successive dualizations), either a 1-cycle or a 2-cycle eventually comes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Aris Daniilidis , Colin Petitjean

In this paper, we prove the conjecture of Demyanov and Ryabova on the length of cycles in converting exhausters in an affinely independent setting and obtain a combinatorial reformulation of the conjecture. Given a finite collection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Tian Sang

Dean conjectured three decades ago that every graph with minimum degree at least $k\ge 3$ contains a cycle whose length is divisible by $k$. While the conjecture has been verified for $k\in \{3,4\}$, it remains open for $k\ge 5$. A weaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yufan Luo , Jie Ma , Ziyuan Zhao

In this paper, we prove a tight minimum degree condition in general graphs for the existence of paths between two given endpoints, whose lengths form a long arithmetic progression with common difference one or two. This allows us to obtain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Jun Gao , Qingyi Huo , Chun-Hung Liu , Jie Ma

In this short note it is shown that every graph of diameter 2 and minimum degree at least 3 contains a cycle of length 4 or 8. This result contributes to the study of the Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'arf\'as Conjecture by confirming it for the class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Avery Carr

Dean conjectured that for each integer $k \ge 3$, every graph with minimum degree at least $k$ has a cycle whose length is divisible by $k$; this conjecture is known to be true for all $k\neq 5$. For $k\in\{3,4\}$, stronger statements are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ilkyoo Choi , Hojin Chu , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

In 1999, Jacobson and Lehel conjectured that for $k \geq 3$, every $k$-regular Hamiltonian graph has cycles of at least linearly many different lengths. This was further strengthened by Verstra\"{e}te, who asked whether the regularity can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Matija Bucić , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

We verify a recent conjecture of Sehrawat, Kumar and Ahlawat on the minimum bisection width (a notion that was rediscovered in 2020 by Acharya and Kureethara under the name of rna number) of powers of cycles.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Carl Feghali , Felicia Lucke

Recently Lin, Wang and Zhou have proved that every $3$-connected nonbipartite graph of minimum degree at least $k$ with $k\ge 6$ and order at least $k+2$ contains $k$ cycles of consecutive lengths. They also conjecture that this result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Chengli Li , Xingzhi Zhan

Consider the graph that has as vertices all bitstrings of length $2n+1$ with exactly $n$ or $n+1$ entries equal to 1, and an edge between any two bitstrings that differ in exactly one bit. The well-known middle levels conjecture asserts…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Petr Gregor , Torsten Mütze , Jerri Nummenpalo

Let D be a digraph and C be a cycle in D. For any two vertices x and y in D, the distance from x to y is the minimum length of a path from x to y. We denote the square of Let $D$ be a digraph and $C$ be a cycle in $D$. For any two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Jie Zhang , Zhilan Wang , Jin Yan

Let $D$ be a strong digraph on $n\geq 4$ vertices. In [3, Discrete Applied Math., 95 (1999) 77-87)], J. Bang-Jensen, Y. Guo and A. Yeo proved the following theorem: if (*) $d(x)+d(y)\geq 2n-1$ and $min \{d^+(x)+ d^-(y),d^-(x)+ d^+(y)\}\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-21 S. Kh. Darbinyan , I. A. Karapetyan

In 2010, N. Lichiardopol conjectured for $q \geq 3$ and $k \geq 1$ that any tournament with minimum out-degree at least $(q-1)k-1$ contains $k$ disjoint cycles of length $q$. We prove this conjecture for $q \geq 5$. Since it is already…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Fuhong Ma , Douglas B. West , Jin Yan

Define the middle layer graph as the graph whose vertex set consists of all bitstrings of length $2n+1$ that have exactly $n$ or $n+1$ entries equal to 1, with an edge between any two vertices for which the corresponding bitstrings differ…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Torsten Mütze

The present paper is devoted to the study of the maximum number of limit cycles bifurcated from the periodic orbits of the quadratic isochronous center $\dot{x}=-y+\frac{16}{3}x^{2}-\frac{4}{3}y^{2},\dot{y}=x+\frac{8}{3}xy$ by the averaging…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiuli Cen , Shimin Li , Yulin Zhao

The 2-Decomposition Conjecture, equivalent to the 3-Decomposition Conjecture stated in 2011 by Hoffmann-Ostenhof, claims that every connected graph $G$ with vertices of degree 2 and 3, for which $G \setminus E(C)$ is disconnected for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-19 F. Botler , A. Jiménez , M. Sambinelli , Y. Wakabayashi

Bondy and Vince proved that a graph of minimum degree at least three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two, which was conjectured by Erd\H{o}s. Gao, Li, Ma and Xie gave an average degree counterpart of Bondy-Vince's result,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Binlong Li , Yufeng Pan , Lingjuan Shi

Let $G$ be any graph of minimum degree at least $k$, and let $G_p$ be the random subgraph of $G$ obtained by keeping each edge independently with probability $p$. Recently, Krivelevich, Lee and Sudakov showed that if $pk\to\infty$ then with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Oliver Riordan

Erd\H{o}s and Gy\'arf\'as conjectured in 1994 that every graph with minimum degree at least 3 has a cycle of length a power of 2. In 2022, Gao and Shan (Graphs and Combinatorics) proved that the conjecture is true for $P_8$-free graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Anand Shripad Hegde , R. B. Sandeep , P. Shashank

Kitaev, Potapov, and Vajnovszki [On shortening u-cycles and u-words for permutations, Discrete Appl. Math, 2019] described how to shorten universal words for permutations, to length $n!+n-1-i(n-1)$ for any $i \in [(n-2)!]$, by introducing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Bernard Lidický , Clare Sibley , Elizabeth Sprangel
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