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For any positive integer $k$, we show that every maximal $C_{2k+1}$-free graph with at least $n^2/4-o(n^{3/2})$ edges contains an induced complete bipartite subgraph on $(1-o(1))n$ vertices. We also show that this is best possible.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang , Xiaoli Yuan

We show that every directed graph with minimum out-degree at least $18k$ contains at least $k$ vertex disjoint cycles. This is an improvement over the result of Alon who showed this result for digraphs of minimum out-degree at least $64k$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Matija Bucić

A proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ with colors $1,2,\dots,t$ is called a cyclic interval $t$-coloring if for each vertex $v$ of $G$ the edges incident to $v$ are colored by consecutive colors, under the condition that color $1$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Armen S. Asratian , Carl Johan Casselgren , Petros A. Petrosyan

The kth power of a simple graph G, denoted G^k, is the graph with vertex set V(G) where two vertices are adjacent if they are within distance k in G. We are interested in finding lower bounds on the average degree of G^k. Here we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-15 Matt DeVos , Jessica McDonald , Diego Scheide

The circumference $c(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the length of a longest cycle. By exploiting our recent results on resistance of snarks, we construct infinite classes of cyclically $4$-, $5$- and $6$-edge-connected cubic graphs with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Edita Máčajová , Ján Mazák

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

We prove that there exists a bivariate function f with f(k,l) = O(l k log k) such that for every naturals k and l, every graph G has at least k vertex-disjoint cycles of length at least l or a set of at most f(k,l) vertices that meets all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Samuel Fiorini , Audrey Herinckx

A cycle $C$ of length $k$ in graph $G$ is extendable if there is another cycle $C'$ in $G$ with $V(C) \subset V(C')$ and length $k+1$. A graph is cycle extendable if every non-Hamiltonian cycle is extendable. In 1990 Hendry conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Deborah Arangno , David E. Brown

Let $D$ be a strong digraph on $n=2m+1\geq 5$ vertices. In this paper we show that if $D$ contains a cycle of length $n-1$, then $D$ has also a cycle which contains all vertices with in-degree and out-degree at least $m$ (unless some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-24 S. Kh. Darbinyan , I. A. Karapetyan

In this paper we study the maximum number of hyperedges which may be in an $r$-uniform hypergraph under the restriction that no pair of vertices has more than $t$ Berge paths of length $k$ between them. When $r=t=2$, this is the even-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Zhiyang He , Michael Tait

In 1998, Broersma and Tuinstra [J. Graph Theory \textbf{29} (1998), 227-237] proved that if $G$ is a connected graph satisfying $\sigma_2(G) \geq |G|-k+1$ then $G$ has a spanning $k-$ended tree. They also gave an example to show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Pham Hoang Ha

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

Bermond and Thomassen conjectured in 1981 that every digraph with minimum outdegree at least $2k-1$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles,here $k$ is a positive integer. Lichiardopol conjectured in 2014 that for every positive integer $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Yandong Bai , Wenpei Jia

An $r$-uniform \textit{linear cycle} of length $\ell$, denoted by $C_{\ell}^r$, is an $r$-graph with edges $e_1, \ldots, e_{\ell}$ such that for every $i\in [\ell-1]$, $|e_i\cap e_{i+1}|=1$, $|e_{\ell}\cap e_1|=1$ and $e_i\cap…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 József Balogh , Lina Li

For a vertex subset $X$ of a graph $G$, let $\Delta_{t}(X)$ be the maximum value of the degree sums of the subsets of $X$ of size $t$. In this paper, we prove the following result: Let $k$ be a positive integer, and let $G$ be an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Shuya Chiba

We show that for each $k\geq 4$ and $n>r\geq k+1$, every $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph with no Berge cycle of length at least $k$ has at most $\frac{(k-1)(n-1)}{r}$ edges. The bound is exact, and we describe the extremal hypergraphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

As the counterpart of classical theorems on cycles of consecutive lengths due to Bondy and Bollob\'as in spectral graph theory, Nikiforov proposed the following open problem in 2008: What is the maximum $C$ such that for all positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Binlong Li , Bo Ning

The subject of graph convexity is well explored in the literature, the so-called interval convexities above all. In this work, we explore the cycle convexity, an interval convexity whose interval function is $I(S) = S \cup \{u \mid G[S \cup…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Carlos V. G. C. Lima , Thiago Marcilon , Pedro Paulo de Medeiros

An ordered graph $G_<$ is a graph with a total ordering $<$ on its vertex set. A monotone path of length $k$ is a sequence of vertices $v_1<v_2<\ldots<v_k$ such that $v_iv_{j}$ is an edge of $G_<$ if and only if $|j-i|=1$. A bi-clique of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Janos Pach , Istvan Tomon

We study the number of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles one can guarantee in a sufficiently large graph G on n vertices with minimum degree d = (1/2+a)n. For any constant a > 0, we give an optimal answer in the following sense: let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Daniela Kühn , John Lapinskas , Deryk Osthus