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The $k$-deck of a graph is its multiset of induced subgraphs on $k$ vertices. We prove that $n$-vertex graphs with maximum degree $2$ have the same $k$-decks if each cycle has at least $k+1$ vertices, each path component has at least $k-1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Douglas B. West , Hannah Spinoza

Let $G$ be a 2-connected $n$-vertex graph and $N_s(G)$ be the total number of $s$-cliques in $G$. Let $k\ge 4$ and $s\ge 2$ be integers. In this paper, we show that if $G$ has an edge $e$ which is not on any cycle of length at least $k$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Naidan Ji , Dong Ye

We consider sufficient conditions for the existence of $k$-th powers of Hamiltonian cycles in $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with minimum degree $\mu n$ for arbitrarily small $\mu>0$. About 20 years ago Koml\'os, Sark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi resolved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Oliver Ebsen , Giulia S. Maesaka , Christian Reiher , Mathias Schacht , Bjarne Schülke

Thomassen, in 1983, conjectured that for a positive integer $k$, every $2$-connected non-bipartite graph of minimum degree at least $k + 1$ contains cycles of all lengths modulo $k$. In this paper, we settle this conjecture affirmatively.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Shuya Chiba , Tomoki Yamashita

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

Let C(G) denote the set of lengths of cycles in a graph G. In the first part of this paper, we study the minimum possible value of |C(G)| over all graphs G of average degree d and girth g. Erdos conjectured that |C(G)| =\Omega(d^{\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Benny Sudakov , Jacques Verstraete

Answering a question by Letzter and Snyder, we prove that for large enough $k$ any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $\frac{1}{2k-1}n$ and without odd cycles of length less than $2k+1$ is $3$-colourable. In fact, we prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Julia Böttcher , Nóra Frankl , Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli , Olaf Parczyk , Jozef Skokan

Kelly, Kuehn and Osthus conjectured that for any l>3 and the smallest number k>2 that does not divide l, any large enough oriented graph G with minimum indegree and minimum outdegree at least \lfloor |V(G)|/k\rfloor +1 contains a directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Diana Piguet

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

Let $k$ be a positive integer. Bermond and Thomassen conjectured in 1981 that every digraph with minimum outdegree at least $2k-1$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles. It is famous as one of the one hundred unsolved problems selected in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Yandong Bai , Yannis Manoussakis

In 1959, Erd\H{o}s and Gallai proved that every graph G with average vertex degree ad(G)\geq 2 contains a cycle of length at least ad(G). We provide an algorithm that for k\geq 0 in time 2^{O(k)} n^{O(1)} decides whether a 2-connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

In a graph $G$, a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V(G)$ is said to be cyclable if there is a cycle containing the vertices in some order. $G$ is said to be $k$-cyclable if any subset of $k \geq 2$ vertices is cyclable. If any $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Niranjan Balachandran , Anish Hebbar

In 1952, Dirac proved that every $2$-connected $n$-vertex graph with the minimum degree $k+1$ contains a cycle of length at least $\min\{n, 2(k+1)\}$. Here we obtain a stability version of this result by characterizing those graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Xiutao Zhu , Ervin Győri , Zhen He , Zequn Lv , Nika Salia , Chuanqi Xiao

Let $k$ be a positive integer. Let $G$ be a balanced bipartite graph of order $2n$ with bipartition $(X, Y)$, and $S$ a subset of $X$. Suppose that every pair of nonadjacent vertices $(x,y)$ with $x\in S, y\in Y$ satisfies $d(x)+d(y)\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Suyun Jiang , Jin Yan

We show that any n-vertex graph without even cycles of length at most 2k has at most 1/2(n^{1 + 1/k}) + O(n) edges, and polarity graphs of generalized polygons show that this is asymptotically tight when k = 2,3,5.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Lam , Jacques Verstraete

A graph $G$ is called $C_4$-free if it does not contain the cycle $C_4$ as an induced subgraph. Hubenko, Solymosi and the first author proved (answering a question of Erd\H os) a peculiar property of $C_4$-free graphs: $C_4$ graphs with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-22 A. Gyarfas , G. N. Sarkozy

Let $k \geq 2$ be an integer. Kouider and Lonc proved that the vertex set of every graph $G$ with $n \geq n_0(k)$ vertices and minimum degree at least $n/k$ can be covered by $k - 1$ cycles. Our main result states that for every $\alpha >…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Frank Mousset , Nemanja Škorić , Miloš Trujić

In 1996, in his last paper, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question that he formulated together with Faudree: is there a positive $c$ such that any $(n+1)$-regular graph $G$ on $2n$ vertices contains at least $c 2^{2n}$ distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Nemanja Draganić , Peter Keevash , Alp Müyesser

A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set such that the two resulting parts differ in size by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges that connect vertices in the two parts. The perfect matching condition and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Jianfeng Hou , Shufei Wu , Yuanyuan Zhong

A set of vertices in a graph is a Hamiltonian subset if it induces a subgraph containing a Hamiltonian cycle. Kim, Liu, Sharifzadeh and Staden proved that among all graphs with minimum degree $d$, $K_{d+1}$ minimises the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Stijn Cambie , Jun Gao , Hong Liu