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We prove that the minimum number of Hamilton cycles in a hamiltonian threshold graph of order $n$ is $2^{\lfloor (n-3)/2\rfloor}$ and this minimum number is attained uniquely by the graph with degree sequence $n-1,n-1,n-2,\ldots,\lceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Pu Qiao , Xingzhi Zhan

In this paper we give an approximate answer to a question of Nash-Williams from 1970: we show that for every \alpha > 0, every sufficiently large graph on n vertices with minimum degree at least (1/2 + \alpha)n contains at least n/8…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Demetres Christofides , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

A tight Hamilton cycle in a $k$-uniform hypergraph ($k$-graph) $G$ is a cyclic ordering of the vertices of $G$ such that every set of $k$ consecutive vertices in the ordering forms an edge. R\"{o}dl, Ruci\'{n}ski, and Szemer\'{e}di proved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Stefan Glock , Stephen Gould , Felix Joos , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

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

For $k \geq 4$, we establish that $p = (e/n)^{1/k}$ is a sharp threshold for the existence of the $k$-th power $H$ of a Hamilton cycle in the binomial random graph model. Our proof builds upon an approach by Riordan based on the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Tamás Makai , Matija Pasch , Kalina Petrova , Leon Schiller

Let $\{G_i\}$ be the random graph process: starting with an empty graph $G_0$ with $n$ vertices, in every step $i \geq 1$ the graph $G_i$ is formed by taking an edge chosen uniformly at random among the non-existing ones and adding it to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Rajko Nenadov , Angelika Steger , Miloš Trujić

A loose Hamilton cycle in a hypergraph is a cyclic sequence of edges covering all vertices in which only every two consecutive edges intersect and do so in exactly one vertex. With Dirac's theorem in mind, it is natural to ask what minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Kalina Petrova , Miloš Trujić

Let $D$ be a strongly connected directed graph of order $n\geq 4$ which satisfies the following condition (*): for every pair of non-adjacent vertices $x, y$ with a common in-neighbour $d(x)+d(y)\geq 2n-1$ and $min \{ d(x), d(y)\}\geq n-1$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Samvel Kh. Darbinyan , Iskandar A. Karapetyan

We revisit the method of small subgraph conditioning, used to establish that random regular graphs are Hamiltonian a.a.s. We refine this method using new technical machinery for random $d$-regular graphs on $n$ vertices that hold not just…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Tobias Johnson , Elliot Paquette

We investigate minimum vertex degree conditions for $3$-uniform hypergraphs which ensure the existence of loose Hamilton cycles. A loose Hamilton cycle is a spanning cycle in which only consecutive edges intersect and these intersections…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-16 E. Buß , H. Hàn , M. Schacht

Given a graph on $n$ vertices and an assignment of colours to the edges, a rainbow Hamilton cycle is a cycle of length $n$ visiting each vertex once and with pairwise different colours on the edges. Similarly (for even $n$) a rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Deepak Bal , Patrick Bennett , Xavier Pérez-Giménez , Paweł Prałat

We study the existence of directed Hamilton cycles in random digraphs with $m$ edges where we condition on minimum in- and out-degree $\d \ge k+1$, where $k \ge 1$. Denote such a random graph by $D_{n,m}^{(\delta\geq k+1)}$. Let $m=cn$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze

We show that for sufficiently large $n$, every 3-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices with minimum vertex degree at least $\binom{n-1}2 - \binom{\lfloor\frac34 n\rfloor}2 + c$, where $c=2$ if $n\in 4\mathbb{N}$ and $c=1$ if $n\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Jie Han , Yi Zhao

For any even integer $k\ge 6$, integer $d$ such that $k/2\le d\le k-1$, and sufficiently large $n\in (k/2)\mathbb N$, we find a tight minimum $d$-degree condition that guarantees the existence of a Hamilton $(k/2)$-cycle in every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Hiep Han , Jie Han , Yi Zhao

A graph is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle which passes through every vertex of the graph exactly once. A classical theorem of Dirac from 1952 asserts that every graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $n/2$ is Hamiltonian. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Michael Krivelevich , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

We establish a relation between two uniform models of random $k$-graphs (for constant $k \ge 3$) on $n$ labeled vertices: $H(n,m)$, the random $k$-graph with exactly $m$ edges, and $H(n,d)$, the random $d$-regular $k$-graph. By extending to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Andrzej Ruciński , Matas Šileikis

In 2003, Bohman, Frieze, and Martin initiated the study of randomly perturbed graphs and digraphs. For digraphs, they showed that for every $\alpha>0$, there exists a constant $C$ such that for every $n$-vertex digraph of minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Igor Araujo , József Balogh , Robert A. Krueger , Simón Piga , Andrew Treglown

We show that for $ \eta>0 $ and sufficiently large $ n $, every 5-graph on $ n $ vertices with $\delta_{2}(H)\ge (91/216+\eta)\binom{n}{3}$ contains a Hamilton 2-cycle. This minimum 2-degree condition is asymptotically best possible.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jie Han , Lin Sun , Guanghui Wang

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

We prove that for integers $2 \leq \ell < k$ and a small constant $c$, if a $k$-uniform hypergraph with linear minimum codegree is randomly `perturbed' by changing non-edges to edges independently at random with probability $p \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Andrew McDowell , Richard Mycroft