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We show that there exists an infinite family of cubic $2$-connected non-hamiltonian graphs with girth $5$ containing a unique longest cycle.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Jorik Jooken , Carol T. Zamfirescu

For large $n$ we determine exactly the maximum numbers of induced $C_4$ and $C_5$ subgraphs that a planar graph on $n$ vertices can contain. We show that $K_{2,n-2}$ uniquely achieves this maximum in the $C_4$ case, and we identify the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Michael Savery

In this paper, we prove a tight minimum degree condition in general graphs for the existence of paths between two given endpoints, whose lengths form a long arithmetic progression with common difference one or two. This allows us to obtain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Jun Gao , Qingyi Huo , Chun-Hung Liu , Jie Ma

Answering a question of Kalai and Meshulam, we prove that graphs without induced cycles of length $3k$ have bounded chromatic number. This implies the very first case of a much broader question asserting that every graph with large…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Marthe Bonamy , Pierre Charbit , Stéphan Thomassé

Generalizing a result of Conway, Sloane, and Wilkes for real reflection groups, we show the Cayley graph of an imprimitive complex reflection group with respect to standard generating reflections has a Hamiltonian cycle. This is consistent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Cathy Kriloff , Terry Lay

A graph is said to be uniquely hamiltonian if it has a unique hamiltonian cycle. For a natural extension of this concept to infinite graphs, we find all uniquely hamiltonian vertex-transitive graphs with finitely many ends, and also discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Babak Miraftab , Dave Witte Morris

It was shown by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milani\v{c}, and Servatius in 2022 that every induced $2$-edge path in a vertex-transitive graph closes to an induced cycle. Similar results were obtained for 3-edge paths closing to cycles in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Martin Milanič , Đorđe Mitrović

In the past few decades, quantum algorithms have become a popular research area of both mathematicians and engineers. Among them, uniform mixing provides a uniform probability distribution of quantum information over time which attracts a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Xiwang Cao

In 1982, Durnberger proved that every connected Cayley graph of a finite group with a commutator subgroup of prime order contains a hamiltonian cycle. In this paper, we extend this result to the infinite case. Additionally, we generalize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Florian Lehner , Farzad Maghsoudi , Babak Miraftab

We give a computer-assisted proof that if $G$ is a finite group of order $8pq$, where $p$ and $q$ are distinct primes, then every connected Cayley graph on $G$ has a hamiltonian cycle.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Fateme Abedi , Dave Witte Morris , Javanshir Rezaee , M. Reza Salarian

An induced packing of cycles in a graph is a set of vertex-disjoint cycles with no edges between them. We generalise the classic Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa theorem to induced packings of cycles. More specifically, we show that there exist functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Jungho Ahn , J. Pascal Gollin , Tony Huynh , O-joung Kwon

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 even cycle problem for both undirected and directed graphs has been the topic of intense research in the last decade. In this paper, we study the computational complexity of \emph{cycle length modularity problems}. Roughly speaking, in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Edith Hemaspaandra , Holger Spakowski , Mayur Thakur

For a set of integers $I$, we define a $q$-ary $I$-cycle to be a assignment of the symbols 1 through $q$ to the integers modulo $q^n$ so that every word appears on some translate of $I$. This definition generalizes that of de Bruijn cycles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joshua N. Cooper , Ronald L. Graham

Dean conjectured three decades ago that every graph with minimum degree at least $k\ge 3$ contains a cycle whose length is divisible by $k$. While the conjecture has been verified for $k\in \{3,4\}$, it remains open for $k\ge 5$. A weaker…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yufan Luo , Jie Ma , Ziyuan Zhao

We show that if G is a 4-critical graph embedded in a fixed surface $\Sigma$ so that every contractible cycle has length at least 5, then G can be expressed as $G=G'\cup G_1\cup G_2\cup ... \cup G_k$, where $|V(G')|$ and $k$ are bounded by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Zdeněk Dvořák , Bernard Lidický

Decomposing an Eulerian graph into a minimum respectively maximum number of edge disjoint cycles is an NP-complete problem. We prove that an Eulerian graph decomposes into a unique number of cycles if and only if it does not contain two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Irene Heinrich , Manuel Streicher

A large body of research in graph theory concerns the induced subgraphs of graphs with large chromatic number, and especially which induced cycles must occur. In this paper, we unify and substantially extend results from a number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

A classical result of Bondy and Simonovits in extremal graph theory states that if a graph on $n$ vertices contains no cycle of length $2k$ then it has at most $O(n^{1+1/k})$ edges. However, matching lower bounds are only known for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Ervin Győri , Dániel Korándi , Abhishek Methuku , István Tomon , Casey Tompkins , Máté Vizer

We consider the parameterised $k,e$-Long Cycle problem, in which you are given an $n$-vertex undirected graph $G$, a specified edge $e$ in $G$, and a positive integer $k$, and are asked to decide if the graph $G$ has a simple cycle through…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt