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We say that a k-uniform hypergraph C is an l-cycle if there exists a cyclic ordering of the vertices of C such that every edge of C consists of k consecutive vertices and such that every pair of consecutive edges (in the natural ordering of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Daniela Kühn , Richard Mycroft , Deryk Osthus

If $G$ is a more than one tough graph on $n$ vertices with $\delta\ge \frac{n}{2}-a$ for a given $a>0$ and $n$ is large enough then $G$ is hamiltonian.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-28 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

Two sharp lower bounds for the length of a longest cycle $C$ of a graph $G$ are presented in terms of the lengths of a longest path and a longest cycle of $G-C$, denoted by $\overline{p}$ and $\overline{c}$, respectively, combined with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-12 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

The cycle set of a graph $G$ is the set consisting of all sizes of cycles in $G$. Answering a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Faudree, Verstra\"{e}te showed that there are at most $2^{n - n^{1/10}}$ different cycle sets of graphs with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Rajko Nenadov

It is proved that if $G$ is a $t$-tough graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ with $t>1$ then either $G$ has a cycle of length at least $\min\{n,2\delta+4\}$ or $G$ is the Petersen graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-19 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

Understanding how the cycles of a graph or digraph behave in general has always been an important point of graph theory. In this paper, we study the question of finding a set of $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles (resp. directed cycles) of distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Julien Bensmail , Ararat Harutyunyan , Ngoc Khang Le , Binlong Li , Nicolas Lichiardopol

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked for the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex graph can have if it does not contain two edge-disjoint cycles on the same vertex set. It is known that Tur\'an-type results can be used to prove an upper bound of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Richard Montgomery

Let ${H}=(V, {E})$ be a hypergraph on the vertex set $V$ and edge set ${E}\subseteq 2^V$. We show that number of distinct {\it traces} on any $k-$ subset of $V$, is most $k.{\hat \alpha}(H)$, where ${\hat \alpha}(H)$ is the {\it degeneracy}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Farhad Shahrokhi

A conjecture of Carsten Thomassen states that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian. It is known that the conjecture is true for 7-connected line graphs. We improve this by showing that any 5-connected line graph of minimum degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-01 Tomáš Kaiser , Petr Vrána

Thomassen's chord conjecture from 1976 states that every longest cycle in a $3$-connected graph has a chord. The circumference $c(G)$ and induced circumference $c'(G)$ of a graph $G$ are the length of its longest cycles and the length of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yanan Hu , Chengli Li , Feng Liu

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

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $r$-uniform hypergraphs. Denote by $\ex^{\mathrm{conn}}_r(n,\mathcal{F})$ the maximum number of hyperedges in an $n$-vertex connected $r$-uniform hypergraph which contains no member of $\mathcal{F}$ as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Lin-Peng Zhang , Hajo Broersma , Ervin Győri , Casey Tompkins , Ligong Wang

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

We expand Conlon's random algebraic construction to show that for any odd number $k \geq 3$ exists a natural number $c_k$ (the same as Conlon's) such that $\operatorname{ex}(n^a,n,\theta_{k,c_k}) = \Omega_{k,a}((n^{1 + a})^{\frac{k +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, let $bc(G)$ denote the minimum number of pairwise edge disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs of $G$ so that each edge of $G$ belongs to exactly one of them. It is easy to see that for every graph $G$, $bc(G) \leq n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Noga Alon , Tom Bohman , Hao Huang

We study how few pairwise distinct longest cycles a regular graph can have under additional constraints. For each integer $r \geq 5$, we give exponential improvements for the best asymptotic upper bounds for this invariant under the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Jorik Jooken

We give several results showing that different discrete structures typically gain certain spanning substructures (in particular, Hamilton cycles) after a modest random perturbation. First, we prove that adding linearly many random edges to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Michael Krivelevich , Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

We prove: (i) if $G$ is a 1-tough graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ with $\delta\ge(n-2)/3$ then each longest cycle in $G$ is a dominating cycle unless $G$ belongs to an easily specified class of graphs with $\kappa(G)=2$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

A graph $G$ is called an $[s,t]$-graph if any induced subgraph of $G$ of order $s$ has size at least $t.$ An edge $e$ in a graph $G$ of order $n$ is called pancyclic if for every integer $k$ with $3\le k\le n,$ $e$ lies in a $k$-cycle. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Chengli Li , Xingzhi Zhan

In 1984, Fan gave a sufficient condition involving maximum degree of every pair of vertices at distance two for a graph to be Hamiltonian. Motivated by Fan's result, we say that an induced subgraph $H$ of a graph $G$ is $f$-heavy if for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Bo Ning