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We give an upper bound on the number of cycles in a simple graph in terms of its degree sequence, and apply this bound to resolve several conjectures of Kir\'aly and Arman and Tsaturian and to improve upper bounds on the maximum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Zdeněk Dvořák , Natasha Morrison , Jonathan A. Noel , Sergey Norin , Luke Postle

We obtain sharp bounds for the number of n--cycles in a finite graph as a function of the number of edges, and prove that the complete graph is optimal in more ways than could be imagined. We prove sharp estimates on both the sum of k-th…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

Let $G=(V,E)$ be an unweighted undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Let $g$ be the girth of $G$, that is, the length of a shortest cycle in $G$. We present a randomized algorithm with a running time of $\tilde{O}\big(\ell \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Liam Roditty , Plia Trabelsi

A cycle cover of a bridgeless graph $G$ is a collection of simple cycles in $G$ such that each edge $e$ appears on at least one cycle. The common objective in cycle cover computation is to minimize the total lengths of all cycles. Motivated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Merav Parter , Eylon Yogev

Let $G$ be a graph and let $\mathrm{cl}(G)$ be the number of distinct induced cycle lengths in $G$. We show that for $c,t\in \mathbb N$, every graph $G$ that does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $K_{t+1}$ or $K_{t,t}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Maria Chudnovsky , Ilya Maier

We consider the problem of incremental cycle detection and topological ordering in a directed graph $G = (V, E)$ with $|V| = n$ nodes. In this setting, initially the edge-set $E$ of the graph is empty. Subsequently, at each time-step an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Sayan Bhattacharya , Janardhan Kulkarni

An old conjecture of Bollob\'as and Scott asserts that every Eulerian directed graph with average degree $d$ contains a directed cycle of length at least $\Omega(d)$. The best known lower bound for this problem is $\Omega(d^{1/2})$ by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov , István Tomon

The main topic considered is maximizing the number of cycles in a graph with given number of edges. In 2009, Kir\'aly conjectured that there is constant $c$ such that any graph with $m$ edges has at most $(1.4)^m$ cycles. In this paper, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Andrii Arman , Sergei Tsaturian

The simple connected graphs may be classified by their cycle composition (number and lengths of cycles). This work derives the counting series of the simple connected graphs that have cycles of unrestricted number and length, but no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Richard J. Mathar

In this paper, we develop a method for studying cycle lengths in hypergraphs. Our method is built on earlier ones used in [21,22,18]. However, instead of utilizing the well-known lemma of Bondy and Simonovits [4] that most existing methods…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Tao Jiang , Jie Ma

We address the induced matching enumeration problem. An edge set $M$ is an induced matching of a graph $G =(V,E)$. The enumeration of matchings are widely studied in literature, but the induced matching has not been paid much attention. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa , Takeaki Uno , Hiroki Arimura

We prove that there exists a function $f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that every directed graph $G$ contains either $k$ directed odd cycles where every vertex of $G$ is contained in at most two of them, or a set of at most $f(k)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer , O-joung Kwon , Qiqin Xie

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

Counting short cycles in bipartite graphs is a fundamental problem of interest in many fields including the analysis and design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. There are two computational approaches to count short cycles (with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Ali Dehghan , Amir H. Banihashemi

The Path Contraction and Cycle Contraction problems take as input an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and an integer $k$ and determine whether one can obtain a path or a cycle, respectively, by performing at most $k$ edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 R. Krithika , V. K. Kutty Malu , Prafullkumar Tale

We introduce the notion of a "random basic walk" on an infinite graph, give numerous examples, list potential applications, and provide detailed comparisons between the random basic walk and existing generalizations of simple random walks.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-06 David White

The orienteering problem is a route optimization problem which consists in finding a simple cycle that maximizes the total collected profit subject to a maximum distance limitation. In the last few decades, the occurrence of this problem in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Gorka Kobeaga , María Merino , Jose A. Lozano

A universal cycle is a compact listing of a class of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we prove the existence of universal cycles of classes of labeled graphs, including simple graphs, trees, graphs with m edges, graphs with loops,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Greg Brockman , Bill Kay , Emma E. Snively

The girth of a graph, i.e. the length of its shortest cycle, is a fundamental graph parameter. Unfortunately all known algorithms for computing, even approximately, the girth and girth-related structures in directed weighted $m$-edge and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jakub Pachocki , Liam Roditty , Aaron Sidford , Roei Tov , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

This note summarizes the state of what is known about the tractability of the problem ModPath, which asks if an input undirected graph contains a simple st-path whose length satisfies modulo constraints. We also consider the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Antoine Amarilli