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A graph is called Dirac if its minimum degree is at least half of the number of vertices in it. Joos and Kim showed that every collection $\mathbb{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_n\}$ of Dirac graphs on the same vertex set $V$ of size $n$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Michael Anastos , Debsoumya Chakraborti

A subgraph of an edge-coloured complete graph is called rainbow if all its edges have different colours. In 1980 Hahn conjectured that every properly edge-coloured complete graph $K_n$ has a rainbow Hamiltonian path. Although this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Noga Alon , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

We prove that every family of (not necessarily distinct) even cycles $D_1, \dotsc, D_{\lfloor 1.2(n-1) \rfloor+1}$ on some fixed $n$-vertex set has a rainbow even cycle (that is, a set of edges from distinct $D_i$'s, forming an even cycle).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Zichao Dong , Zijian Xu

A Hamilton cycle is a cycle containing every vertex of a graph. A graph is called Hamiltonian if it contains a Hamilton cycle. The Hamilton cycle problem is to find the sufficient and necessary condition that a graph is Hamiltonian. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Heping Jiang

Let $G = (G_1, G_2, \ldots, G_m)$ be a collection of $m$ graphs on a common vertex set $V$. For a graph $H$ with vertices in $V$, we say that $G$ contains a rainbow $H$ if there is an injection $c: E(H) \to [m]$ such that for every edge $e…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yupei Li , Ruth Luo

A tuple $(G_1,\dots,G_n)$ of graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$ is said to be Hamilton-universal if for every map $\chi: [n]\to[n]$ there exists a Hamilton cycle whose $i$-th edge comes from $G_{\chi(i)}$. Bowtell, Morris, Pehova and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Micha Christoph , Anders Martinsson , Aleksa Milojević

A graph is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle passing through every vertex. One of the cornerstone results in the theory of random graphs asserts that for edge probability $p \gg \frac{\log n}{n}$, the random graph $G(n,p)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Michael Krivelevich , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

A Hamilton Berge cycle of a hypergraph on $n$ vertices is an alternating sequence $(v_1, e_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n, e_n)$ of distinct vertices $v_1, \ldots, v_n$ and distinct hyperedges $e_1, \ldots, e_n$ such that $\{v_1,v_n\}\subseteq e_n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Dennis Clemens , Julia Ehrenmüller , Yury Person

We consider a robust variant of Dirac-type problems in $k$-uniform hypergraphs. For instance, we prove that if $H$ is a $k$-uniform hypergraph with minimum codegree at least $(1/2 + \gamma )n$, $\gamma >0$, and $n$ is sufficiently large,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Sylwia Antoniuk , Nina Kamčev , Andrzej Ruciński

An edge-colored graph is a graph in which each edge is assigned a color. Such a graph is called strongly edge-colored if each color class forms an induced matching, and called rainbow if all edges receive pairwise distinct colors. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Laihao Ding , Xiaolan Hu , Suyun Jiang

Finding near-rainbow Hamilton cycles in properly edge-coloured graphs was first studied by Andersen, who proved in 1989 that every proper edge colouring of the complete graph on $n$ vertices contains a Hamilton cycle with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Danni Peng , Zhifei Yan

Given an $n$ vertex graph whose edges have colored from one of $r$ colors $C=\{c_1,c_2,\ldots,c_r\}$, we define the Hamilton cycle color profile $hcp(G)$ to be the set of vectors $(m_1,m_2,\ldots,m_r)\in [0,n]^r$ such that there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Alan Frieze , Mihir Hasabnis

We first consider the following problem. We are given a fixed perfect matching $M$ of $[n]$ and we add random edges one at a time until there is a Hamilton cycle containing $M$. We show that w.h.p. the hitting time for this event is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Lisa Espig , Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich

The renowned theorem of Dirac states that if $G$ is a graph with minimum degree at least $n/2$ then $G$ has a Hamilton cycle. A natural generalisation asks what properties of an edge-colouring of $G$ guarantee the existence of a properly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Natalie Behague , Francesco Di Braccio , Bertille Granet , Allan Lo

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ with an edge-coloring $c$, and let $\delta^c(G)$ denote the minimum color degree of $G$. A subgraph $F$ of $G$ is called rainbow if all edges of $F$ have pairwise distinct colors. There have been a lot…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Xiaozheng Chen , Xueliang Li

A $c$-edge-colored multigraph has each edge colored with one of the $c$ available colors and no two parallel edges have the same color. A proper Hamiltonian cycle is a cycle containing all the vertices of the multigraph such that no two…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Raquel Águeda , Valentin Borozan , Raquel Díaz , Yannis Manoussakis , Leandro Montero

A classical result of Dirac says that every $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $\frac{n}{2}$ contains a Hamilton cycle. A `discrepancy' version of Dirac's theorem was shown by Balogh--Csaba--Jing--Pluh\'ar,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Natalie Behague , Debsoumya Chakraborti , Jared León

A subgraph $H$ of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all of the edges of $H$ have different colours. In 1989, Andersen conjectured that every proper edge-colouring of $K_{n}$ admits a rainbow path of length $n-2$. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Stephen Gould , Tom Kelly , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph on $n$ vertices. For a vertex $v$, the \emph{color degree} of $v$ in $G$, denoted by $d^c(v)$, is the number of colors appearing on the edges incident with $v$. Denote by $\delta^c(G)=\min\{d^c(v):v\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiaozheng Chen , Bo Ning

We prove two results regarding cycles in properly edge-colored graphs. First, we make a small improvement to the recent breakthrough work of Alon, Pokrovskiy and Sudakov who showed that every properly edge-colored complete graph $G$ on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Jozsef Balogh , Theodore Molla